Abstract
Introduction: Oral pathologies that can occur in children are very diverse and require extensive knowledge to diagnose them. Objective: To describe the frequency of oral and maxillofacial pathologies that occurred in patients aged 0-18 years who attended the Fundación Hospital de la Misericordia (HOMI) in the period 2006-2014, in addition to relating the most frequent oral and maxillofacial pathologies with sociodemographic characteristics. Materials and Methods: Descriptive, cross-sectional study. The analysis of information was recorded of 277 clinical histories of the HOMI, in patients from 0 to 18 years, who were diagnosed with any of the oral and maxillofacial pathologies, divided as follows: Head/neck cystic lesions, temporomandibular joint (TMJ) lesions, infectious lesions, benign tumor, malignant tumor of head and neck, and benign odontogenic tumor. It was carried out in analysis of the sociodemographic characteristics. Results: The most frequent pathologies were infectious lesions (62.45%), followed by benign odontogenic tumors (12.99%). Conclusions: This study shows that the most frequent pathologies were infectious lesions and benign odontogenic tumors.
Highlights
Oral pathologies that can occur in children are very diverse and require extensive knowledge to diagnose them
The information in the medical records included the following: female and male patients aged 0-18 years who were arranged into 0-4 years, 5-9 years, 10-14 years, 15-18 years age groups, and those who were diagnosed with some type of oral and maxillofacial pathology, divided as follows: head/neck cystic lesions, temporomandibular joint (TMJ) lesions
The following results were found: The most frequent head and neck pathologies that occurred at the Hospital de la Misericordia (HOMI) were infectious lesions, a 62.45%, followed by benign odontogenic tumors, corresponding to 12.99%, benign head and neck tumors, 10.10%, and malignant head and neck tumors, head and neck cysts, TMJ lesions and skin lesions, which had lower frequency percentages (Table 1)
Summary
Oral pathologies that can occur in children are very diverse and require extensive knowledge to diagnose them. The analysis of information was recorded of 277 clinical histories of the HOMI, in patients from 0 to 18 years, who were diagnosed with any of the oral and maxillofacial pathologies, divided as follows: Head/ neck cystic lesions, temporomandibular joint (TMJ) lesions, infectious lesions, benign tumor, malignant tumor of head and neck, and benign odontogenic tumor. It was carried out in analysis of the sociodemographic characteristics. Conclusions: This study shows that the most frequent pathologies were infectious lesions and benign odontogenic tumors. There are few studies on the prevalence of oral and maxillofacial pathologies in pediatric patients
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