Abstract

FERRAZ, Nathália Gomes Guimarães et al. Dental losses in primary care clinics practice. Rev. cir. traumatol. buco-maxilo-fac. [online]. 2016, vol.16, n.1, pp. 19-27. ISSN 1808-5210.

OBJECTIVE: Determine the prevalence of tooth loss, tooth extraction, and its relationship with socioeconomic factors in patients seen in primary care clinics of the Faculty of Dentistry of Pernambuco (FOP). METHODS: A cross-sectional study that used as a research instrument consisting of a form identification, socioeconomic factors, and a clinical, consisting lost teeth and cause of loss was conducted. The sample of 169 users, aged 18 and 68 years, of both sexes. The survey data were imported into SPSS version 5.0 and analyzed using the techniques of inferential statistics. RESULTS: It was shown that 76.3% of the patients studied had some tooth loss. The teeth most affected were lower molars and upper molars with a mean of 1.58 and 1.09, respectively, and the lowest average was lower anterior teeth (0.17). The percentage of patients without loss was highest among patients who had no children (82.5%) and was zero among those who had four or more children. Caries was the most frequent cause, with 62.1%. CONCLUSIONS: The prevalence of tooth loss was high and the most frequent cause was dental caries. The group most affected by the loss teeth was molars group and showed a statistically significant association of tooth loss with socioeconomic and demographic indicators: age and number of children.

Keywords : Dental loss; Epidemiology; Prevalence.