Caries de la infancia temprana, demanda de atención odontológica y percepción parental de salud bucal en pre-escolares de riesgo social del Gran Mendoza
Early childhood caries is a public health problem affecting pre-school social risk children more aggressively. The aim of this study is to establish the connection between dental condition, dental care demand, oral health perception and socio-economic status between pre-school children in Mendoza...
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| Publicado en: | Revista de la Facultad de Odontología |
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| Sumario: | Early childhood caries is a public health problem affecting pre-school social
risk children more aggressively. The aim of this study is to establish the
connection between dental condition, dental care demand, oral health
perception and socio-economic status between pre-school children in Mendoza.
MATERIAL AND METHOD: The intended sample is the school
population, consisting of 155 children-level residents, belonging to a
marginalized urban school environment in the province of Mendoza. The
following indexes were recorded: dmft, DMFT, dmfs, DMFS and its
differentiated components ICDAS II, INTC (Bordoni, 1998) and plaque
index (Silness and Löe, 1967). A questionnaire about parental perception
of oral health (ECOHIS) and structured surveys about the typology of the
demand for dental care and socioeconomic conditions (NBI) were conducted.The distribution of frequency, the confidence interval for each variable and
the central tendency and dispersion measures were determined. In addition,
comparisons among groups by means of the chi-square test, p = 0.05, were
also conducted. RESULTS: 85.8% of the sample had caries experience. For
each indicator the values were reported as follows: dmft + DMFT = 5716
+- 4.08; dt + DT = 5.39 +-3.79; mt +MT = 0.25 + -0.72, and ft +
FT = 0.08 + -0.34; dmfs + DMFS = 8.89 + -8.39; ds + DS = 7.63
+ -6.25; ms + MS = 1.23 + -3.62, and fs + FS = 0.12 +0.46; IP =
1.04 + -0.48, and INTC = 5.65 + -3.19. No significant differences were
observed when grouping children according to sex. When analyzing dental
care demand, it was found that 54.9% made a dental visit, 25% made it last
year, and 74%made it through the public health subsystem. ECOHIS
questionnaire analysis revealed that the highest percentage of responses were
obtained when the “never” category was included. Pain was the only
significant item related to dental condition statistically. CONCLUSIONS:
There is a high prevalence of dental caries. In addition, dental care demand
has not produced a positive impact neither on dental status nor in the oral
health parent perception. |
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