Oral health status in Cienfuegos population
<strong><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Tahoma;">Background</span></strong><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><strong>: </strong>The creation of reliable epidemiological profiles in different populations is a helpful practice...
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Centro Provincial de Información de Ciencias Médicas. Cienfuegos
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| author | Emma Gil Ojeda Beatriz García Alpízar Yumaidy Colina Sánchez |
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| description | <strong><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Tahoma;">Background</span></strong><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><strong>: </strong>The creation of reliable epidemiological profiles in different populations is a helpful practice that offers a general vision of how community health can be affected and it assess health systems interventions and provides information to guide the policy making process. </span><strong><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Tahoma;">Objective</span></strong><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><strong>: </strong>To assess the population´s oral health condition of through the determining of the appropriate markers. </span><strong><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Tahoma;">Methods</span></strong><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><strong>: </strong>Descriptive study in five health areas of Cienfuegos province including people selected by age group and through randomized sampling. The oral health condition of this population was analyzed, and the results were compared with the previous measurement dating from 1998. </span><strong><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Tahoma;">Results</span></strong><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><strong>: </strong>The percentage of this population between 5-18 years of age without malocclusions or gingival and periodontal affectation was 72,6% and 38,6% respectively; the percentage of children with DMF-index at the age of five was 1,96, while the 88,2% of 18 years-old surveyed people have all their teeth. The mean of lost teeth in the age groups 35-44 and 60-74 was 7,6 and 24,7 respectively. </span><strong><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Tahoma;">Conclusions</span></strong><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><strong>: </strong>Most of oral health markers improved compared with the previous measurements, except for the age group 5-18 without malocclusions and the percentage of people without gingival or periodontal affectations, which was slightly reduced.<span> </span></span> |
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| spelling | doaj-art-2b21d4694c0b479f9cd29bf9696833d02025-01-30T21:28:41ZspaCentro Provincial de Información de Ciencias Médicas. CienfuegosMedisur1727-897X2009-04-017199105479Oral health status in Cienfuegos populationEmma Gil Ojeda0Beatriz García Alpízar1Yumaidy Colina Sánchez2Dirección Provincial de Salud. Cienfuegos.Clínica de Especialidades. Cienfuegos.Clínica de Especialidades. Cienfuegos.<strong><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Tahoma;">Background</span></strong><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><strong>: </strong>The creation of reliable epidemiological profiles in different populations is a helpful practice that offers a general vision of how community health can be affected and it assess health systems interventions and provides information to guide the policy making process. </span><strong><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Tahoma;">Objective</span></strong><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><strong>: </strong>To assess the population´s oral health condition of through the determining of the appropriate markers. </span><strong><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Tahoma;">Methods</span></strong><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><strong>: </strong>Descriptive study in five health areas of Cienfuegos province including people selected by age group and through randomized sampling. The oral health condition of this population was analyzed, and the results were compared with the previous measurement dating from 1998. </span><strong><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Tahoma;">Results</span></strong><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><strong>: </strong>The percentage of this population between 5-18 years of age without malocclusions or gingival and periodontal affectation was 72,6% and 38,6% respectively; the percentage of children with DMF-index at the age of five was 1,96, while the 88,2% of 18 years-old surveyed people have all their teeth. The mean of lost teeth in the age groups 35-44 and 60-74 was 7,6 and 24,7 respectively. </span><strong><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Tahoma;">Conclusions</span></strong><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><strong>: </strong>Most of oral health markers improved compared with the previous measurements, except for the age group 5-18 without malocclusions and the percentage of people without gingival or periodontal affectations, which was slightly reduced.<span> </span></span>http://medisur.sld.cu/index.php/medisur/article/view/692salud bucalgingivitisperiodontitismaloclusióníndice cpo |
| spellingShingle | Emma Gil Ojeda Beatriz García Alpízar Yumaidy Colina Sánchez Oral health status in Cienfuegos population Medisur salud bucal gingivitis periodontitis maloclusión índice cpo |
| title | Oral health status in Cienfuegos population |
| title_full | Oral health status in Cienfuegos population |
| title_fullStr | Oral health status in Cienfuegos population |
| title_full_unstemmed | Oral health status in Cienfuegos population |
| title_short | Oral health status in Cienfuegos population |
| title_sort | oral health status in cienfuegos population |
| topic | salud bucal gingivitis periodontitis maloclusión índice cpo |
| url | http://medisur.sld.cu/index.php/medisur/article/view/692 |
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