انتشار سوء الإطباق في عينة من الأطفال السوريين في فترة الإطباق المختلط المتأخر

The aim of this study was to investigate and to assess the prevalence of malocclusion in a sample of Syrian school children in the late mixed dentition using Angle's classification. The sample formed of 936 children (490 males and 446 females) aged 10-11 years whom were clinically examined to determine the kind of occlusion according to Angle's classification. The results showed that 40.2 % of the children had normal occlusion, 35.5 % had class I malocclusion, 17 % had class II division 1 malocclusion, 2.2 % had class II division 2 malocclusion, 5.1 % had class III malocclusion. The gender was not statistically significant for the occurrence of malocclusion or neither for the type of malocclusion recorded among males and females.