RESOURCES OF OUTPATIENT PEDIATRIC DENTAL SERVICE OF ST. PETERSBURG AND SOME INDICATORS OF ITS WORK

Abstract

Introduction. The organization of primary specialized dental care for children is of paramount importance due to the wide prevalence of lesions the dentoalveolar region, leading to formation of foci of odontogenic infection, which cause diseases of many systems and organs.The objective of the study is to analyze the state of the network and personnel of children’s dental service, identify trends in their dynamics, and determine main indicators of the work.Material and methods. We analyzed materials of official statistical reporting (f. 30) for 5 years on the network of public health organizations providing dental care for children. Research methods - statistics, determination of extensive and intensive indicators, the materiality of their differences using the criterion of reliability t (significant differences were recognized at t>3), time-series analysis. Results. We obtained the data on the availability of child population with pediatric stomatologist, dentists and dental hygienists, staffing, qualifying characteristics. There is a tendency to increasing the staff of stomatologist and dentists, while reducing their staffing. There is a significant deficit among the personnel and staff of dental hygienists. We identified main indicators of the outpatient dental service to provide specialized care for children: frequency of visits by children to stomatologists of different specialties, dentists and dental hygienists, the average number of visits per year for a child and 1 disease, the ratio of preventive visits to treatment, the frequency (per 1000 visits) and structure of different types of dental care for children. Clinic attendance by children for dental and oral diseases was 1318.7 0/00, on average, more than 1.3 visits for a child; there are 2.4 repeated visits per primary visit for the disease. On average, 437.7 out of every thousand visits over 5 years were related to the course of prevention and 265.5 were visits for planned rehabilitation.Conclusions. It is advisable to introduce forms of accounting and reporting documentation for the registration of dental and oral diseases in different age groups of the population, including children (type f. 25-u and f. 12). (of type f. 25 and s. 12).