Consulta dos 0 aos 60 anos

: análise dos pacientes de uma unidade de saúde familiar

Abstract

Introduction: Childhood is a period of acquisition of habits and behaviors, influenced by the surrounding environment. The child must acquire, at an early age, correct eating and hygiene habits. In Portugal, tooth decay is a public health problem. Prevention and early intervention are essential. Objectives: The main objectives were to understand if the PNPSO measures are promoted, the information of those responsible regarding food habits and oral hygiene, how important they are to them, what care they have with infants and children and themselves, what is the prevalence of caries in the studied child population and what is the agreement between present teeth and those predicted by the tables of eruption chronology. Material and methods: A cross-sectional observational epidemiological study was carried out to evaluate the oral and feeding hygiene care that parents / tutors had with infants / children and themselves. A convenience sample was used, obtaining data from as many users as possible from 0 to 6 years old and their parents / tutors, who attended USF Rio Dão between October 2016 and February 2017. A questionnaire was applied by interview and the clinical observation was recorded. The present teeth, the DMFT index and the ceod index were evaluated. Results: 24.3% of those responsible did not wash their teeth daily. 32.0% of those responsible had not visited the Dentist in the past year. 73.8% of the children consumed candies. Of the 72.8% children who washed their teeth, 36.0% did not do it daily. The average ceod index was 1.11 ± 2.52 and the DMFT was 0. There was no complete correspondence with the two tables, and for one of them there was greater correspondence of the female gender. Conclusions: Oral health promotion to parents / guardians was not uniform in the studied population. Although those responsible consider oral hygiene habits and deciduous dentition extremely important, these considerations do not correspond to the care they have for babies / children.

Date of Award	18 Jul 2017
Original language	Portuguese
Awarding Institution	Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Supervisor	Andreia Sofia de Paiva Figueiredo (Supervisor) & Andreia Sofia de Paiva Figueiredo (Co-Supervisor)