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Revista da Associacao Paulista de Cirurgioes Dentistas

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ASSUNCAO, Luciana Reichert da Silva et al. Caries epidemiology of children in the primary infancy in the City of Belém, PA. Rev. Assoc. Paul. Cir. Dent. [online]. 2015, vol.69, n.1, pp. 74-79. ISSN 0004-5276.

Objective: The objective of this study was to evaluate the epidemiological profile of children aged 6-36-months-old living in the city of Belém, Pará, Brazil. Methods: The final sample was 340 children. Nine calibrated examiners participated in this study. The DMFT and DMFS indexes were used for clinical examination. The children were divided by age in: 6-12, 13-24 and 25-36-months- old. Data was statistically analyzed using the Qui-square test, with a significance level of 5%. Results: The prevalence of dental caries was 32,9% in the total of the sample. Indexes dmft and dmfs were 1.12 (sd=2.31) and 1.64 (sd=4,00), respectively. There has been a highly significant increase in caries experience proportionally with increasing age (P=0.0020). From the 6340 examined teeth, it was observed a higher proportion for decayed component with 362 teeth. There was a statistically significance relationship between curatives treatments and the age of 25 to 36-months-old (P=0.0057). Conclusions: The results of the current study emphasize the importance of an early odontological assistance for primary infants living at this city.

Palavras-chave : dental caries; epidemiology; child; preschool.

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