Presencia de placa, calculo y gingivitis en pacientes que acudieron a la clínica odontológica de la Universidad Católica de Cuenca en el año 2018-2019

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the presence of dental plaque, calculus, and gingivitis in patients who attended the University of Cuenca clinic in 2018-2019. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The study design was observational and descriptive with a quantitative approach. The population of this study was 2,219 clinical records from 2018-2019 of patients 13 years and older from the Faculty of Dentistry of the Catholic University of Cuenca, of which presented an error of 5%, resulting in 2,103 files, which are the simplified oral hygiene index to analyze the presence of calculus, bacterial plaque, and the presence of gingivitis of the 2,219 records, the files with errors were eliminated, resulting in 2,120. A database was created in Epi Info and analyzed in Excel and SPSS program version 26. RESULTS : The patients presented an average level of bacterial plaque with 39.8%, 61% of patients presented an excellent level of dental calculus, and only 13.3% presented gingivitis. CONCLUSION: The results of this study show that patients have a good index of simplified oral hygiene, which is consistent with the low gingivitis score.