Frequency and Distribution of Root Canal Treated Teeth and Missing Teeth from a Sample of Erbil Citizens –RetrospectiveInvivoStudy

Root canal treatment is a viable option to save a tooth which has quite a number of indications. Though it also depends upon the awareness of people, access to quality treatment, socio-economic condition…etc. which enables a population to go for saving the tooth or extracting the tooth which could have been saved. The current study uses radiographic evaluation, Orthopantomogram (OPG) to evaluate the population of Erbil city of Iraq to have an idea of prevalence of Root Canal Treatment and Missing Tooth either due to extraction or natural reasons. In this study the mean and mean rank of number of teeth with root canal treatment as well as missing teeth in females are more than males and the study also emphasizes that elderly citizens of Erbil have more root canal as well as missing teeth compare to other countries