Abstract

QUINTERO ORTIZ, Julia E; MENDEZ MARTINEZ, María J; MEDINA SERUTO, María  and  GOMEZ MARINO, Mercedes. Risk factors and dental caries in adolescents from 12 to 15 years. AMC [online]. 2008, vol.12, n.3, pp. 0-0. ISSN 1025-0255.

Background: Dental caries is described like a located destruction processes sequence in the hard tissues of the tooth that evolves in progressive and irreversible form. It begins in the surface and then advances in depth. Objective: To determine the behavior of some risk factors and dental caries in adolescents from 12 to 15 years. Method: An investigation of descriptive type in the doctor's offices 11, 51 and 64 of the North health area was performed, belonging to «Joaquin de Agüero» Community Hospital and «La Vigía» Educational Odontology Clinic, of Camagüey municipality, from October 2005 to September 2006. The sample was constituted by 40 adolescents, to which a questionnaire to establish the level of information on oral health was applied, the individual medical history was carried out and in a form, data were collected such as, previous experience of dental caries, oral hygiene rate, cariogenic diet, crowding, salivary pH and prematurity upon being born. Results: The majority possessed a good information on oral health, nevertheless, there was predominance of the affected ones by dental caries, deficient oral hygiene, cariogenic diet, where a raised percent of them had acid and neutral pH values and more than the half of the premature were affected by dental caries, in the meanwhile the major percent classified in high and moderate risk to dental caries. Conclusions: More than the ¾ part of the sample classified in high and moderate risk to dental caries

Keywords : Dental caries [diagnosis]; oral health; adolescent; risk factors; epidemiology descriptive.

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