Abstract

RODRIGUEZ LLANES, Ricardo; TRAVIESAS HERRERA, Eladio Miguel; LAVANDERA CARBALLIDO, Eva  and  DUQUE HERNANDEZ, Mabel. Risk factor associated to dental caries in children from nurseries. Rev Cubana Estomatol [online]. 2009, vol.46, n.2, pp. 0-0. ISSN 1561-297X.

Risk factors associated to dental caries are a measurable likelihood and also a predictive value in prevention of this condition, which is the major cause of teeth loss. We made a cross-sectional, descriptive and observational study to determine the clinicoepidemiologic behavior of risk factors of dental caries in children from nurseries in Artemisa municipality from April to December, 2007 to identify prevalence and the risk factors associated with dental caries, and also to analyze risk degree in study sample. Universe includes 642 infants from 6 nurseries and sampling was performed by feasibility, in which we choice 2 nurseries for a total of 240 infants grouped according age, sex, dental caries prevalence, and most of risk factors, as well as risk degree. We applied a form including a questioning to parents and guardians and buccal examination to children from the same institutions, applying in each case the ceo-d rate. Among the main results we noted that 80% of children was caries-free, that the more incident risk factors were cariogenic diet and a poor oral hygiene, and that more than 80% of sample has a low risk of caries. We conclude that dental caries prevalence in these institutions is low despite risk factor influence conditioning appearance of this condition.

Keywords : Risk factors; dental caries/epidemiology; ceo-d rate.

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