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<h3>Introduction</h3>
<p>Edentulism and prosthodontic care are very common, especially in the elderly. The study investigated the treatment with complete dentures (CDs) and acrylic removable partial dentures (ARPDs) among people receiving new prosthodontic treatment in the Primary Health Centres of the three regions in Kosovo from 2002 to 2013.</p></sec>

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<h3>Methods</h3>
<p>The data on ARPDs delivery and CDs delivery was obtained from the archives of primary health centres from three Kosovo regions (Prizren, Peje, Ferizaj) from 2002 to 2013. The data was analysed concerning year of treatment, type of dentures, jaw, age, gender and urban or rural origin of the patients. The trend of treatment was determined, and the binomial logistic regression model was used for predicting odds of ARPD versus CD treatment by year of treatment and patient characteristics.</p></sec>

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<h3>Results</h3>
<p>From 2002 to 2013, 9,478 patients received 11,655 CDs and 4,401 ARPDs. Delivery of CDs significantly increased by 57.45 dentures per year (R2=0.609) and delivery of ARPDs by 30.39 dentures per year (R2=0.569). Each year the odds for ARPD versus CD increased by 4.2% (95% CI: 3.0%–5.4%). Younger patients have higher odds for ARPD rather than CD and odds for ARPD are decreasing as the age of patients rises. The gender, residence, and jaw all had a significant impact on prosthodontic treatment too.</p></sec>

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<h3>Conclusions</h3>
<p>In Primary Health Centres of Kosovo, there is a trend for higher frequencies of both dentures (more obvious for ARPD), and the frequency is highly dependent on the age of patients.</p></sec></abstract>

Introduction
Edentulism and prosthodontic care are very common, especially in the elderly. The study investigated the treatment with complete dentures (CDs) and acrylic removable partial dentures (ARPDs) among people receiving new prosthodontic treatment in the Primary Health Centres of the three regions in Kosovo from 2002 to 2013.


Methods
The data on ARPDs delivery and CDs delivery was obtained from the archives of primary health centres from three Kosovo regions (Prizren, Peje, Ferizaj) from 2002 to 2013. The data was analysed concerning year of treatment, type of dentures, jaw, age, gender and urban or rural origin of the patients. The trend of treatment was determined, and the binomial logistic regression model was used for predicting odds of ARPD versus CD treatment by year of treatment and patient characteristics.


Results
From 2002 to 2013, 9,478 patients received 11,655 CDs and 4,401 ARPDs. Delivery of CDs significantly increased by 57.45 dentures per year (R2=0.609) and delivery of ARPDs by 30.39 dentures per year (R2=0.569). Each year the odds for ARPD versus CD increased by 4.2% (95% CI: 3.0%–5.4%). Younger patients have higher odds for ARPD rather than CD and odds for ARPD are decreasing as the age of patients rises. The gender, residence, and jaw all had a significant impact on prosthodontic treatment too.


Conclusions
In Primary Health Centres of Kosovo, there is a trend for higher frequencies of both dentures (more obvious for ARPD), and the frequency is highly dependent on the age of patients.

Frequency of complete and removable partial denture treatment in the primary health centres in three different regions of Kosovo from 2002 to 2013

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Pogostost oskrbe s totalno in delno protezo v primarnih zdravstvenih centrih v treh različnih regijah na Kosovu v obdobju 2002–2013

Introduction
Edentulism and prosthodontic care are very common, especially in the elderly. The study investigated the treatment with complete dentures (CDs)...

Patients	Dentures
	CD	ARPD	Total
4,483	8,966		8,966
1,647	1,647		1,647
1,042	1,042	1,042	2,084
1,053		2,086	2,106
1,253		1,253	1,253
Ʃ9,478	Ʃ11,655	Ʃ4,401	Ʃ16,056

Age group	Prizren	Peje/Peč	Ferizaj/ Uroševac	Total
<35	111,468	57,811	69,212	238,491
35–44	24,767	13,150	14,750	52,667
45–54	18,452	10,658	10,822	39,932
55–64	11,690	7,337	7,269	26,296
65–74	7,443	4,917	4,570	16,930
75+	3,961	2,577	1,987	8,525
Total	177,781	96,450	108,610	382,841

Observed category	Reference category	AOR (95% CI) ARPD to CD	p
Year of delivery
2013	2002	1.042 (1.030–1.054)	0.001*

Sex
[Male]	[Female]	1.291 (1.197–1.392)	0.001*

Age
[<34 years]	[75+ years]	13.935 (10.296–18.861)	0.001*
[35–44 years]	[75+ years]	6.201 (5.181–7.422)	0.001*
[45–54 years]	[75+ years]	3.541 (3.031–4.137)	0.001*
[55–64 years]	[75+ years]	2.519 (2.163–2.934)	0.001*
[65–74 years]	[75+ years]	1.512 (1.299–1.759)	0.001*

Residence
[Rural]	[Urban]	1.102 (1.008–1.205)	0.033*

Jaws
[Mandibula]	[Maksila]	2.996 (2.778–3.231)	0.001*

Frequency of complete and removable partial denture treatment in the primary health centres in three different regions of Kosovo from 2002 to 2013

Article Category: Original scientific article

Published Online: Jun 26, 2019

Page range: 104 - 111

Received: Nov 06, 2018

Accepted: May 08, 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/sjph-2019-0014

Keywords
edentulism, prosthodontic treatment, complete dentures, removable partial dentures

© 2019 National Institute of Public Health, Slovenia

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

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The number of patients according to the number and type of dentures they received in prosthodontic treatment in the Primary Health Centres of the three regions of Kosovo from 2002 to 2013.

Population size in the three regions of Kosovo registered in 2011.

Binominal logistic regression model predicting odds of ARPD versus CD treatment by year of receiving the treatment (2002–2013) and patient characteristics.

Frequency of complete and removable partial denture treatment in the primary health centres in three different regions of Kosovo from 2002 to 2013

Article Category: Original scientific article

Published Online: Jun 26, 2019

Page range: 104 - 111

Received: Nov 06, 2018

Accepted: May 08, 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/sjph-2019-0014

Keywordsedentulism, prosthodontic treatment, complete dentures, removable partial dentures

© 2019 National Institute of Public Health, Slovenia

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Figure 1

Figure 2

Figure 3

The number of patients according to the number and type of dentures they received in prosthodontic treatment in the Primary Health Centres of the three regions of Kosovo from 2002 to 2013.

Population size in the three regions of Kosovo registered in 2011.

Binominal logistic regression model predicting odds of ARPD versus CD treatment by year of receiving the treatment (2002–2013) and patient characteristics.

Keywords
edentulism, prosthodontic treatment, complete dentures, removable partial dentures