Tooth decay is the most prevalent illness in oral health. In
Peru a high percentage of settlers who live in situation of poverty and this reflect itself in its situation of integral health and oral health. The objective of the study is to diagnose the oral health conditions (dental decay and oral hygiene) in settlers that live in context of poverty. This is a transversal and descriptive study. During the experience-learning of dental public health, students of fourth year in Dentistry career of the Cayetano Heredia Peruvian University-UPCH evaluated to 651 settlers among 0 to 64 years of age of a marginal urban community, of the north of
Lima. The settlers participated voluntarily (year 2007). The WHO caries diagnostic and Greene and Vermillion oral and hygiene index were collected using biosafety methods. The data entered to Epi-Info 6 database and was performed the simple and bivariate analyses. The prevalence and experience of dental decay in temporally dentition reduced when the age was older measured in unit tooth and surface: 5 years: dmft 4,67 (SD 3,05), dmfs 7,00 (SD 5,49); to 12 years: dmft 1,80 (SD 2,04) dmfs 3,20 (SD 2.94). On the other hand in permanent dentition this behaves was much inverse form for unit tooth and surface (6 years: DMFT 0,71 SD 1,44, DMFS 2,52 SD 8,27; to 12 years: DMFT 4,24 SD 3,73 DMFS 5,92 SD 5,82; 33-45 years: DMFT 15,11 SD 6,32 DMFS 39,77 SD 27,42; from 60 to but years: DMFT 11,00 SD 9,64 DMFS 19,67 SD 18,61). In relation to the kind is not observed statistically significant difference in both dentitions. In hygiene the 22.2%, 48,7% and 29,1% presents good, regular and bad oral hygiene respectively. The average in oral hygiene in the population was of 2,47 (SD 1,45).
The dental decay still being a problem of public health, this is critic for people who lives in context of poverty. It is necessary the development of intervention programs of first and second level of attention.yhedina@hotmail.com