Carie prevalence in children with cleft lip and/or palate aged 6 to 36 months / Prevalência de cárie dentária em crianças portadoras de fissura de lábio e/ou palato na faixa etária entre 6 e 36 meses

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2008

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The oral health is one of the important factors to the success of an aesthetic and functional oral rehabilitation of the individuals carrying cleft lip and palate. The main objective of that study was to evaluate the dental caries prevalence in children carrying cleft lip and/or palate, aged 6 to 36 months. The research was developed in FOUSP, with children carrying cleft lip and/or palate enrolled by treatment in the ambulatory of Bucco-Maxillo-Facial Prostheses, since their first months of age. Those children used to have public fluoridate water supply and at least two erupted dental elements. Were selected 143 children, 73 from the male gender and 70 from the female, uniformly distributed into 5 age groups 6-12, 13-18, 19-24, 25-30, 31-36 months old. From the sample, 88 children had cleft lip and palate (CLP), 20 had cleft lip (CL) and 35 had cleft palate (CP). A single investigator carried out the clinic exam after the dental prophylaxis, using dental operating light, dental mirror and probe to diagnose the presence of caries and its relationship to the cleft type, gender and age of the individual. At the same time, a questionnaire in dialogue form was applied to check the caries experience related to the risk factors: nighttime bottle, introduction of sugar in dietary and lack of oral hygiene. The data were placed in a table and submitted to the statistical analysis using the Q-Square test adjusted by Fischers statistic method. The children affected by caries had corresponded to 18.88% of the sample with a similar distribution among the gender and, despite the caries prevalence had been bigger in the CLP, that relation didnt show statistical significance. When increasing the age, the number of children with caries prevalence also increased (p<0,001). Considering the risk factors, the only one showed relationship was the introduction of sugar in dietary (p=0,001). A total of 1743 teeth were evaluated and 62 of them were decayed and 5 filled, determining an average dmf-t of 0.46 and an average dmf-s of 0.74, determining a very low severity. The caries prevailed at the upper maxillary, being the upper maxillary incisor teeth the most affected element (p=0,044). In the mandible the caries prevail in the first molar teeth (p<0,001). The findings of that research showed that the children with CLP, regardless of gender, didnt show a high index of caries and a statistical significant relationship between caries prevalence and CLP types. The caries prevalence increases when increasing the age showing a relationship with the sugar introduction in the dietary being the upper maxillary incisor tooth the most affected element.

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dental caries fissuras labiopalatinas bebês cárie dentária cleft lip and/or palate babies

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