Dental caries and oral hygiene in patients treated at the Clinica del Niño of Faculty Dentistry at San Marcos University
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.15381/os.v12i1.2896Keywords:
Caries dental, higiene bucal, prevalencia, Odontopediatría.Abstract
The aim of the present study was to assess the prevalence of dental caries and the stateof the oral hygiene in pediatric patients who received dental care at the Clínica del Niño, of Faculty Dentistry. The type of the investigation was descriptive with a sample of 399 patients whose parents authorized the permission for the investigation. The patients of the study were, medical conditions compromised, handicapped children, complex children, children no receptive, children with orthodontics problems, children with urgency problems, and bbies. First we collected the personal datum and then it was collected the clinical examination, using the dental index for DMFT, dmft and the simplified index hygiene of Green and Vermillion. The results obtain were a average of 3,57 for dental caries of all the samples and the 91,18 % had an oral hygiene index from regular to bad. The highest results of the dmft index were for complex children 7,89 and for DMFT index was to the handicapped children 5,17. The babies show a dmft index of 2,26.The investigation concludes that the majority of patients were a high prevalence of dental caries and a poor oral hygiene.Downloads
Downloads
Published
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2009 Maria Castañeda Mosto, Luis Maita Véliz, Mariela Romero Velarde
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
AUTHORS RETAIN THEIR RIGHTS:
a. Authors retain their trade mark rights and patent, and also on any process or procedure described in the article.
b. Authors retain their right to share, copy, distribute, perform and publicly communicate their article (eg, to place their article in an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in the Odontología Sanmarquina.
c. Authors retain theirs right to make a subsequent publication of their work, to use the article or any part thereof (eg a compilation of his papers, lecture notes, thesis, or a book), always indicating the source of publication (the originator of the work, journal, volume, number and date).
