Oral Tori in Chronic Hemodialysis Patients

Table 6

Comparison of prevalence rate of oral tori from different studies.

Study	Year	Geographic area	Sample size,	Population	TP, %	TM, %
Reichart et al. [6]	1988	German	1317	Nonuremic	13.5	5.2
Reichart et al. [6]	1988	Thailand	947	Nonuremic	23.1	9.2
Shah et al. [8]	1992	India	1000	Nonuremic	9.5	1.4
Gorsky et al. [4]	1996	Israel	1002	Nonuremic	21.0
Ruprecht et al. [15]	2000	USA	1600	Nonuremic		16.9^*
Bruce et al. [9]	2004	Ghana	926	Nonuremic	4.3	12.1
Yildiz et al. [10]	2005	Turkey	1943	Nonuremic	30.9
Jainkittivong et al. [5]	2007	Thailand	1520	Nonuremic	60.5	32.2
Sawair et al. [11]	2009	Jordan	618	Nonuremic	15.4	25.7
Sisman et al. [7]	2008	Turkey	2660	Nonuremic	4.1
Yoshinaka et al. [12]	2010	Japan	664	Nonuremic	17
Simunkovic et al. [13]	2011	Croatia	1679	Nonuremic	42.9	12.6
Mishra et al. [18]	2011	Malaysia	65	Nonuremic	50.8	4.6
Sisman et al. [16]	2012	Turkey	91	Uremic	41.7
Chiang et al. [17]	2014	Taiwan	2050	Nonuremic	21.1	24.2
Yoshinaka et al. [14]	2014	Japan	664	Nonuremic		29.7
Current study	2014	Taiwan	119	Uremic	23.5	6.7

Note: TP: torus palatinus; TM: torus mandibularis; ^*radiographic study.