title: Prevalence of Dental Anomalies among School Going Children in India.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The purpose of the present study is to investigate the prevalence of dental anomalies according to gender among children.
  
  
  METHODS
  This cross-sectional study was conducted a group of 600 children, of them 293 (48.8%) were males and 275 (45.8%) females which were taken with proper sampling technique. Type III clinical examination was done to know the prevalence of dental anomalies. The Statistical software namely SPSS version 16.0 was used for data analysis. Chi-square test was used at p value of 0.05 or less.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Impactions (39.2%) were the most common anomaly in this study and most of the impacted teeth were related to maxilla. A significant difference was seen in case of hypodontia, microdontia and talons cusp according to gender in which first two anomalies were more among females and last one among males. Children with one dental anomaly were 25.8%, and 13.4% were having more than one.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The percentage of dental anomalies were high specially impaction and rotated teeth. So these anomalies should be treated earlier to avoid further complications. How to cite this article: Kathariya MD, Nikam AP, Chopra K, Patil NN, Raheja H, Kathariya R. Prevalence of Dental Anomalies among School Going Children in India. J Int Oral Health 2013; 5(5):10-4.
authors: Department of Pedodontics & Preventive Dentistry, Rural Dental College, Pravara Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS), Loni, Maharashtra, India.
authors: Mitesh D
authors: MD
authors: Kathariya
authors: Atul Pralhad
authors: AP
authors: Nikam
authors: Kirti
authors: K
authors: Chopra
authors: Namrata N
authors: NN
authors: Patil
authors: Hitesh
authors: H
authors: Raheja
authors: Renuka
authors: R
authors: Kathariya
keywords: dental anomalies; prevalence; school children