Publicación:

Frecuencia de caries dental según ICDAS en niños de 6 a 10 años atendidos en las clínicas odontológicas de la universidad cooperativa de Colombia, sede Bogotá durante el primer periodo del año 2018

Resumen

Introduction: Dental caries, is a multifactorial, chronic disease that is characterized by progressively destroying the tissues of the tooth (enamel, dentin and pulp), until generating deep lesions or the loss of it, and despite being a preventable disease it continues to affect all people even from an early age. The objective of the present work was to determine the frequency of caries in children from 6 to 10 years attended in the dental clinics of the cooperative university of Colombia in the first period of the year 2018 and its relationship with age, sex and the amount of carbohydrates on diet Methodology: A quantitative, descriptive and cross-sectional study was developed, where a review of the ICDAS formats filled out in the medical records of the patients filed at the same university, of which it was taken into account for their selection to comply with be medical records of patients who were treated in the UCC and in the period stipulated with mixed dentition, aged between 6 to 10 years and who were well filled with informed consent signatures; the medical records of patients with unspecified dentition, children with temporary dentition and incomplete medical records were excluded. Results: A sample of 179 medical records was selected within which the female population is greater than the male population, children at the age of 9 are treated more frequently, of 3968 teeth reviewed 981 teeth show decay with some ICDAS code 1 -6 giving as main result that code 0 is the most frequent, but within the range 1-6 the most frequent code is code 3, in all cases more than 1 carbohydrate content was found in the diet and in none of The cases were found root caries. Conclusion: It is important to identify the frequency of caries in children with the ICDAS system since it helps us to detect it in early or advanced stages and thus rethink treatments either preventive or corrective in order to minimize the impact of the disease in that population.