Abstract

IGLESIAS PARADA, IM. Oral health in temporary dentition: (and III) Research about dental traumatisms, oral pathologies and problems with handling of behaviour in a 441 child sample from Vigo. Av Odontoestomatol [online]. 2003, vol.19, n.2, pp.95-104. ISSN 2340-3152.

The purpose of this three-part research is to evaluate the oral health of children from Vigo with temporary dentition. In this third and last part, prevalences of damages because of dental traumatisms, of oral pathologies and of problems with handling of behaviour of those children at the dental c1inic are studied. Sample: 441 children, aged between fourteen and ninety-two months (average age: 59.6 months), all of them with milk teeth at the beginning of the research. Results: The 18,82 precent of the sample show some kind of injury as a consequence of dental traumatisms. The infectious secundary pathology to dental caries represents the 40,7 per cent of the total of pathologies, and belated missing of temporary tooth represents the 38,9 per cent. The prevalence of problems with handling of behaviour of children is 11,3%. Conclusion: Dental traumatisms happen mainly in central higher incisors, the most frecuent consequence is the change of the color of the tooth. Approximately, one of each ten children shows an oral infection as a consequence of dental caries. It seems that children with avoiding behaviours and problems with handling of behaviour show a worse oral health.

Keywords : Epidemiology; Temporary dentition; Dental Traumatism; Oral Pathology; Problems with Handling of Behaviour; Prevalence.

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