Índice de dientes cariados, perdidos u obturados y su frecuencia con el cepillado dental en escolares de la ciudad de Cuenca, Ecuador.

Abstract

Introduction: Oral health is a problem that affects the world, presenting greater affection to schoolchildren and in the background to older people. This condition has negative consequences for the stomatognathic system in the future. Objective: To relate the number of brushings per day and DMFT in 12-year-old schoolchildren from the Totoracocha Cuenca-Ecuador 2016 parish. Method: The methodology used was of a quantitative type with a descriptive design and a retrospective documentary technique. The sampling study was based on 175 files that are registered in the Epi-Info database of the Catholic University of Cuenca, the variables were DMFT and brushing frequency per day. Frequencies and percentages were used as descriptive statistics, and Kendall's Tau b statistic was applied for the correlation to determine the correlation between covariates of ordinal scale and its statistical significance is for a value of p≤0.05. Results: 71.4% of the participants are female and 28.6% male; 36.0% of schoolchildren have a very low DMFT index and 30.3% average; 52.6% of the study participants do brushing with a daily frequency of less than 3 times a day, in women this brushing frequency is performed by 52.8% and in men 52.0%; In general, there is a very low and not significant correlation between the frequency of daily brushing and the DMFT index (tau-b: 0.004; p: 0.954); while in males there is a low and direct correlation between brushing frequency and dmft index (tau-b: 0.268; p: 0.042) Conclusions: The results obtained clarified that there is no relationship between the number of brushings per day and DMFT in women and that only men present a bilateral relationship.