Oral recurrent aphthous ulcers/stomatitis: prevalence in Malaysia and an epidemiological update

Zain, R.B. (2000) Oral recurrent aphthous ulcers/stomatitis: prevalence in Malaysia and an epidemiological update. Journal of Oral Science, 42 (1). pp. 15-19. ISSN 1343-4934,

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Abstract

One of the objectives of this short communication was to add to the literature on the prevalence of oral recurrent aphthous stomatitis (ORAS). This research is based on a total of 11,697 randomly selected Malaysian subjects with an age range of 25-115 years and a mean age of 44.5 +/- 13.9 years who were examined for oral mucosal lesions (ORAS). The prevalence of ORAS detected during the oral examination (average point prevalence) was found to be 0.5 (64 subjects). ORAS formed 5.7 of all lesions detected during the survey. The average point prevalence of ORAS was highest in the indigenous people of Sabah and Sarawak (1.2), followed by the Chinese (0.7), the Malays (0.5) and the Indians (0.1). This difference was statistically significant (p < 0.001). A review of the English literature on the prevalence of ORAS revealed different prevalence types used by different researchers, namely average point prevalence (APP), self reported life-time prevalence (SLP) and self reported two-year prevalence (STP). The other objective of this paper was to present the different types of prevalence that have been reported in the literature and to discuss the usefulness of such prevalence types in relation to using epidemiology in deriving certain possible etiological associations.

Item Type: Article
Funders: UNSPECIFIED
Additional Information: Cited By (since 1996): 10 Export Date: 12 January 2012 Source: Scopus
Uncontrolled Keywords: age distribution; aged; aphthous stomatitis; article; epidemiology; ethnic group; ethnology; female; human; Malaysia; male; middle aged; prevalence; sex ratio; Epidemiologic Methods; Ethnic Groups; Middle Aged; Prevalence; Sampling Studies; Sex Distribution; Stomatitis, Aphthous
Subjects: R Medicine > RK Dentistry > Oral surgery
Divisions: Faculty of Dentistry > Dept of Oral Pathology & Oral Medicine & Periodontology
Depositing User: Prof. Dr. Rosnah Mohd Zain
Date Deposited: 10 Feb 2012 02:38
Last Modified: 24 Sep 2019 08:14
URI: http://eprints.um.edu.my/id/eprint/2595

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