THE PREVALENCE OF LOCALIZED JUVENILE PERIODONTITIS IN SAUDI SUBJECTS

THE PURPOSE OF THIS STUDY was to determine the prevalence and sex rati o of localized juvenile periodontitis (UP) cases in a selected Saudi p opulation, to compare these values with different societies, and to co rrelate the sex ratio with the presence of Actinobacillus actinomycete mcomitans in the afflicted sites. In a retrospective study over a 3-ye ar period 23 cases of LJP were diagnosed from a group of 5,480 subject s with different forms of periodontal disease. The overall prevalence was 0.42%. The female to male ratio was 1.88:1. The difference in the sex ratio was statistically significant (X = 5.490, P < .05). No stati stically significant difference in the sex ratio association regarding the sites afflicted by Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans was found .