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Diagnosis concept

Retained dental root

One diagnosis code, shared across patients.

Provenance
Code
66569006
  • 125 patients
  • 1.1% of all patients
  • top 22% across all diagnoses, by patients
  • 125 recorded episodes

Coding

System
SNOMED-CT

What else these patients have

diagnosis concept Generalised chronic periodontitis
9% of these patients· 3% of all patients
diagnosis concept Nonproliferative diabetic retinopathy due to type II diabetes mellitus
4% of these patients· 2% of all patients
diagnosis concept Dental caries on smooth surface penetrating into dentin
5% of these patients· 2% of all patients

Of the 125 patients with this diagnosis, the share who also carry each one, against how common it is across all patients.

Age at first diagnosis

Retained dental root: median 19 across all diagnoses: median 35

Age at first diagnosis Bar chart. Age at first diagnosis. 125 patients in all; the largest group is 10 to 19 with 37; Retained dental root: median 19 years; across all diagnoses: median 35 years. 0 10 20 30 0 to 9: 28 patients 10 to 19: 37 patients 20 to 29: 16 patients 30 to 39: 14 patients 40 to 49: 10 patients 50 to 59: 14 patients 60 to 69: 6 patients 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 years
Half of these patients were 19 or older. Across all diagnoses, half were 35 or older. The 10 to 19 hold the most, 37 patients. A few first diagnoses are back-dated into infancy, and some conditions are handed an age by the decade, which draws a spike rather than a spread.

How long it stays on the record

How long it stays on the record Bar chart. How long it stays on the record. 7 categories; the largest is over five years with 91 episodes. no end recorded: 0 episodes no end recorded 0 a week or less: 13 episodes a week or less 13 up to a month: 0 episodes up to a month 0 up to three months: 0 episodes up to three months 0 up to a year: 0 episodes up to a year 0 one to five years: 21 episodes one to five years 21 over five years: 91 episodes over five years 91
over five years, more than any other. 125 episodes in all. “No end recorded” is an episode the generator never closed, not one known to be ongoing.