El estado nutricional como riesgo para desarrollar caries en niños menores de cinco años de edad

Authors

  • Carlos Campodónico Reátegui Profesores del Departamento Académico de Estomatología Biosocial - Fac.de Odontología - UNMSM.
  • Martha Pineda Mea Profesores del Departamento Académico de Estomatología Rehabilitadora - Fac.de Odontología - UNMSM.
  • Sylvia Chein Villacampa Profesores del Departamento Académico de Estomatología Biosocial - Fac.de Odontología - UNMSM.
  • Lourdes Benavente Lipa Profesores del Departamento Académico de Estomatología Biosocial - Fac.de Odontología - UNMSM.
  • Maria Ventocilla Huasupoma Profesores del Departamento Académico de Estomatología Rehabilitadora - Fac.de Odontología - UNMSM.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15381/os.v1i7.3686

Keywords:

Epidemiology, Nutrition, Dental Caries

Abstract

It was evaluated the weight and height of 101 children, 3 to 5 year-old, from the marginal urban area "Playa Rimac " of Lima city, to determine their nutrition state, and know the influence that can exist with d.m.f. Index. There was 1% of children with malnutrition "moderate", 15% with malnutrition "light", 72% nutritional state "normal", and 12% in state of "obesity", no one with "severe" malnutrition. The mean d.m,f Index was 4,7 even arriving at 6,6, although it showed the tendency to be elevated in cases of malnutrition, there was not a positive statistical correlationy as it happened to Oral Hygiene Index, since 61 % qfthe children presented a high level of plaque.

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Published

2001-07-16

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 7 (2001)

Section

Artículos de Investigación

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Copyright (c) 2001 Carlos Campodónico Reátegui, Martha Pineda Mea, Sylvia Chein Villacampa, Lourdes Benavente Lipa, Maria Ventocilla Huasupoma

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Campodónico Reátegui C, Pineda Mea M, Chein Villacampa S, Benavente Lipa L, Ventocilla Huasupoma M. El estado nutricional como riesgo para desarrollar caries en niños menores de cinco años de edad. Odontol Sanmarquina [Internet]. 2001 Jul. 16 [cited 2024 Aug. 16];1(7):27-32. Available from: https://revistasinvestigacion.unmsm.edu.pe/index.php/odont/article/view/3686