The state of oral health this related to socioeconomic factors, way of life, access to services and biological factors. The practices of health are linked to behaviors that adopt the people learned in their home and other contexts in living. The objective of the study is to show the most frequent practices in the care of the oral health. Study of descriptive type–cross, in which 140 settles 12 year age older was interviewed, that live in a marginal urban community of the north of
Lima city, employing a survey validated by a judgment of experts (educational team of the Dentistry Faculty of Cayetano Heredia Peruvian University). During risk factors learning activities that influence in the oral health, students of Dentistry (fourth year of career) collected information of variables linked to consumption of cariogenic food, implements of oral hygiene, frequency of brushed and moments of brushed, employment of dental paste, visit to the dentist (place, motive of attention) and behavior front the pain of molars. The questions were open answers and then they were codified for their income in a database in Epi-info version 6. The analyses were simple and bivariate. The 75,9% of settlers eat cariogenic food, the 85,6% employs brush dental, the 23,0% is brushed three or more times. Al day, generally they brushed before or after the main food, 79,1% uses fluoride dental paste, 86,6% visited to the dentist last year, 63,6% visit to public establishments and 36,4% to private. The women visit the dentist most frequently (80.5%).
A high percentage of settlers had healthy practices in dental health care although 30% had poor practices. Is necessary to improve and reinforce adequate conducts to prevent the installation of oral illnesses as the dental decay and periodontal disease.fpachasb@upch.edu.pe