Estado nutricional y condiciones de salud bucodental en niños de 7 años de la unidad educativa fe y alegría

Abstract

Introduction: Nutrition is mainly the use of nutrients, keeping the homeostatic balance in a molecular and macrosystem level. . Evaluate the nutritional status allow us give high quality healthcare in the children and identify whom are in nutritional risk. The excessive consumption gets to an energetic unbalance, which can take to a nutritional disorder such as overweight, obesity and even underweight The correct feeding of children are important factors in all phases of development and systemic growth and development in dental eruption and maintenance of teeth. Dental caries, periodontal disease and dental malocclusion constitute one of the most prevalent diseases worldwide in school. Materials and methods: the sample was 80, 7 years old boys and girls from Unidad Educativa Fe y Alegría, it preform a dental and medical exam to determinate the nutritional status and oral health. The data was analyzed with SPSS 20.0 IBM. Chicago, IL. Results: the data showed that 48.7% of the kids is underweight, 97.5% had dental caries and malocclusions represent 95%. Aphthae oral and traumatic ulcers occurred in 1.2% of children each. Conclusions: The data obtained in this study indicates that most of the children studied are underweight. The most common oral diseases found are dental caries, periodontal disease and malocclusion. To a lesser extent found aphthae oral and traumatic ulcers. No link between nutritional deficiency or excess with the most common oral diseases was established