Dental Disease in Psychiatric Patients

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Abstract
A group of 2212 in-patients at the Boston Psychopathic Hospital between the ages of 10 and 50 yrs. shows a somewhat lower DMF rate than was found by Hyde among Boston military selectees in 1943 and a considerably lower DMF rate than was found by Dunning and Klein among industrial employees in New York City in 1942 Since these differences may be regional or due to differences in examination methods and since the hospital group showed a wide range of mental states, it was decided to use this group as its own base line. For purposes of analysis the sample was divided into 5-yr. age groups. Few mental diagnostic groups showed any significant difference from the DMF rates for the sample as a whole. Differences that were found were small. Patients with manic-depressive psychosis had a higher DMF rate at every age studied, although the differences were so small and the number of cases in the samples were so small that statistical significance was only obtained by a small margin when the series was con -sidered as a whole. Patients 30 to 40 yrs. of age showing alcoholism (without psychosis) also had a higher DMF rate accompanied by a higher tooth mortality (M teeth).

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