Asociación entre higiene bucal y alimentación con caries de infancia temprana en preescolares, Guayaquil 2017.

Abstract

Introduction: childhood caries are a rapid bacterial lesion that predisposes its development in children under 71 months and is associated with the risks of food and hygiene. Objective: to determine the association between oral hygiene and diet with prevalence of childhood cavities among preschool children from the Jorge Villacreses Moscoso School of the City of Guayaquil enrolled in the 2017-2018 school year. Materials and methods: transversal research, analytical, descriptive study, with a universe of 120 preschool students and a study population consisting of 106 reschoolers of both sexes, between ages 3 to 5 years, where the composition between hygiene was determined oral and feeding with the prevalence of childhood cavities by medical methods and surveys of parents. Results: 76% of the population in the study shows teeth affected by childhood cavities, are more vulnerable than the male gender with 56% and more is affected by the 4 years of age with the 43%. Discussion: the results were similar to those described in the literature, where high values are reported for Latin American populations such as those reported by Aguilar et al. (2014) where they determine a prevalence of STI in Colombia of 74.9% and in the Philippines of 90% in infants of 4 years of age. Conclusion: the high cavities frequency of early childhood in the study population is the consequence of ignorance of hygiene measures and inadequate assistance to help prevent the disease.