Study of oral health status and treatment needs in patients of dentistry course of Federal University of Pará / "Estudo das condições de saúde bucal e necessidades de tratamento em pacientes do curso de odontologia da Universidade Federal do Pará"

AUTOR(ES)

Marizeli Viana de Aragão Araujo

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2003

RESUMO

SUMMARY Brazil has often been referred as a country with high indices of prevalence of oral diseases, in particular dental caries and periodontal disease. The main purposes of the present study were to assess the oral health status and treatment needs in dental caries, periodontal disease and prosthetics of patients who looked for treatment in Dentistry Course of Federal University of Pará and to verify the prevalence of these diseases. For this study, 120 patients both male and female were examined and divided into four age groups: 12, 15-19 yr, 35-44 yr and 65-74 yr in 2002. The parameters were DSTNI, CPITN and wear and need of dental prosthetics, according to WHO. The patients who looked for treatment in Dentistry Course of Federal University of Pará were in higher prevalence, brown and female. The general DMFT index of sample was 11,91 and 1,63 for 12 years old; 4,63 for the age group of 15-19 years old, 16,40 for 35-44 years old and 25,01 for the age group of 65-74 years old. The prevailing treatment need of dental caries was restorative treatment of one, two or more faces. The worst periodontal status found in patients was a high prevalence of periodontal diseases with high percentage of lost sextants, followed by the presence of calculus and pockets of 4 to 5 mm. There were periodontal treatment needs such as scaling, prophylaxis and oral hygiene instruction. The wear of prosthetics was concentrated in age groups of 35-44 yr and 65-74 yr. Regard to the prosthetic needs, it was observed that 45% of patients needed superior prosthetics and 54,2% inferior prosthetics. When the prosthetic needs were analyzed considering the gender, 41,81% of male and 67,69% of female needed to wear prosthetics, showing a higher need in female.

ASSUNTO(S)

patients in dentistry dentistry in colective health oral health saúde bucal pacientes em odontologia universidade federal do pará odontologia em saúde coletiva federal university of para

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