Prevalencia de caries en los escolares de 12 años en la parroquia Tambo-Cañar Ecuador 2019-2020

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: To determine the prevalence of caries in 12-year-old schoolchildren in the Tambo-Cañar Ecuador 2019-2020 parish. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A descriptive, current cross-sectional study was conducted; The sample consisted of 212 epidemiological records corresponding to a 12-year-old patient. RESULTS: The results obtained indicate caries prevalence with 96.7%. The prevalence of caries according to sex was higher in the male sex with 54.7%, and 45.3% were female, in the sample under study, caries were 53.8% male, and 42.9% those of the female sex; likewise, there was absence of the disease in 2.4% of girls and 0.9% of boys. As for the prevalence of caries according to ICDAS in 679 dental surfaces evaluated in 12-year-old schoolchildren, the most frequent code was code 04, evidencing itself in 21.61% of the cases, followed by code 02 with 18.32% ; Finally, there is code 34 with 11.84%, these codes being more relevant since they have a percentage greater than 10%. Regarding the presence of caries according to educational level in the 12-year-old patients who made up the sample under study, discriminated according to educational level, it can be seen that 40.6% of males are of educational level public and 14.2% private, regarding the female sex 31.6% conform to the public educational level and 13.7% to the private one.