Publicación: Valoración del riesgo de caries en escolares entre los 6 y 8 años del colegio universidad cooperativa de Colombia, sede pradito Medellín. 2010-2011.
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Establishing the risk of dental caries among schoolchildren aged 6 to 8 years old at the ColegioUniversidad Cooperativa de Colombia at Pradito, Medellín (Colombia).Methods:The population included 110 students of which 95 met the inclusion criteria.The data were obtained through a clinical evaluation and a questionnaire filled out by the parents,The evaluation was based on Dr. Tomas Seif caries risk index. We performed a database in Excel 2010, the variables were described by frequency distributioncrossing cavitational caries (cc) with all explanatory variables and estimated the risk of cc with these variablesby disparied reasons (RD) with their respective confidence intervals (CI) 95%;becoming level 0 and 1 for the presence of caries in the Seif index in a single variable which was named no cavitational caries and levels 2 and 3 were given the name of cavitational caries (cc)thus we analyzed these factors as influencing the presence of cc. Results: 61.1% of the school population from 6 to 8 years showed a moderate risk of suffer dental caries. Conclusion:It is necessary to implement promotion and prevention measures that are aimed at improving oral hygiene habits and reduce carbohydrate intake to decrease the risk of dental caries in this population.