Introduction:

dental caries and malocclusions are concerns for patients and dental professionals due to their worldwide incidence, due to the oral manifestations that they trigger and due to the aesthetic alteration of the patient.

Objective:

to identify the incidence of caries, malocclusion and caries-malocclusion in 7th grade adolescents from the Basic Secondary School "XXX Anniversary of the Battle of Guisa" of the Bayamo municipality.

Methods:

a cross-sectional descriptive research was carried out in the 7th grade adolescents in the period from January 2017 to December 2018 with a universe of 142 students.

Results:

it was revealed that the male sex had an incidence of 85.71% of affectation by dental caries, the malocclusion affected 43.10% in the female sex; the incidence of caries-malocclusion in the population under study was 29.31% and 27.38% according to the female and male sex, respectively.

Conclusions:

the incidence of dental caries, malocclusions and caries-malocclusion was determined, which had a high incidence in the adolescent population.

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