Abstract
This research aims to provide updated information on caries experience and associated risk factors in children 6-12 years old. A cross-sectional and descriptive study design was carried out with a non-probabilistic, convenient sample of 209 children male and female. Clinical examinations were performed by calibrated dental students following WHO detection criteria. Caries indices dmft and DMFT were calculated. Caries Risk Assessment data was collected using an adapted CAMBRA instrument; following the International Caries Care guidelines. Descriptive statistics were performed to analyze the results and Chi-square test, Contingency Coefficient (C) and Corrected Typified Residues were calculated to determine the association between variables. 58% of the total population had dental caries lesions in its more severe stages (cavitation) and 42% were apparently healthy (AHS) without any cavitated lesions. The mean dmft index was 1.34 ± 1.93, and the mean DMFT index was 0.63 ± 1.22. Lesion severity remained between 1-2 teeth affected on both dentitions. A statistically significant association (p = 0.035) between the health condition and toothbrushing was stablished with a degree of dependence of C = 0.144. A positive standardized residual of 2.1 was evident for schoolchildren that experience caries lesion that never brush their teeth and AHS that brushed their teeth more than once. No association (p = 0.081) was found between health condition and intake of sugary snacks and beverages. A severe dental caries experience with a statistically significant association between the health condition and toothbrushing with fluoridated toothpaste 1450 ppm > 1 a day and a positive correlation in schoolchildren that experience caries lesion that never brush their teeth.
Highlights
Submitted: February 16, 2020 Accepted for publication: July 14, 2021 Last revision: November 11, 2021Dental caries affects humans without distinction of gender, age, socioeconomic status, or race, the individuals most vulnerable to this disease are in the lowest socioeconimic classes.[1,2] Dental caries is defined by consensus as a biofilm-mediated, diet modulated, multifactorial, non-communicable, dynamic disease resulting in net mineral loss of dental hard tissues, determined by biological, behavioral, psychosocial, Braz
The dental caries lesion is understood as a dynamic interaction process that occurs between the tooth surface and the dental biofilm, in which there is an imbalance between the net mineral loss and gain; this imbalance at a given moment can favor the demineralization process.[4,5]
Dental caries experience The results indicated that 58% of the total population showed dental caries lesions in its more severe stages and 42% were apparently healthy without any cavitated lesions (Table 1)
Summary
Dental caries affects humans without distinction of gender, age, socioeconomic status, or race, the individuals most vulnerable to this disease are in the lowest socioeconimic classes.[1,2] Dental caries is defined by consensus as a biofilm-mediated, diet modulated, multifactorial, non-communicable, dynamic disease resulting in net mineral loss of dental hard tissues, determined by biological, behavioral, psychosocial, Braz. The disease in the absence of treatment progresses until the appearance of a lesion that could be detected in a clinical stage by the localized mineral loss of hard tissues.[4]. The dental caries lesion is understood as a dynamic interaction process that occurs between the tooth surface and the dental biofilm, in which there is an imbalance between the net mineral loss and gain; this imbalance at a given moment can favor the demineralization process.[4,5] The lesion is considered the late sign of dental caries disease;[4] its first expression at a subclinical stage can be arrested or remineralized when the balance among the physiological events that occur in the dental biofilm is restored.[6]
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