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QUINONEZ YBARRIA, María Elena et al. Relation between oral affections and nutritional state in primary school children  from Bauta municipality    . Rev Cubana Estomatol [online]. 2006, vol.43, n.1. ISSN 0034-7507.

Nutrition is an essential requisite of the human condition. Its affection generates an energy-protein malnutrition that is accompanied with diverse clinical manifestations, intensity degrees and evolutivity, which  give it the character of syndromic complex. Taking into account the repercussion on the general physical development of the child, as well as the importance of an adequate development of the stomatognathic apparatus during the first years of life, we proposed ourselves to determine the relation existing between the nutritional state and the main oral affections. To this end, a study of 52 primary school children selected according to a study previously conducted by General Comprehensive Medicine was conducted. Of them, 26 were  normoweight and 26 had nutritional disorders. Of the latter, 14 were slim and 12 were low weight. Children were examined to the natural light in their schools. The variables analyzed were age, nutritional state, the coe-d and COP indices, the presence of malocclusions and the PMA index. The coe-d and COP indices were elevated in children with nutritional disorders (coe-d 1,50 y COP 0,66), whereas in the normoweight they were 0.73 and 0.53 for coe-d and COP, respectively. It was observed a high prevalence of malocclusions in the low weight with  66,6 %, 46,15 % in the normoweight  and an elevated percentage of gingivitis in slim children and in low weight (14.28 and 16.66, respectively). In the normoweight it was 23.07.

Palabras clave : estado nutricional; aparato estomatognático; manifestaciones.

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