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AUTHOR
José María Montiel Company
Evaluation of caries risk in a young adult population
Introduction: Various caries risk prediction models have been developed in recent years. Cariogram®, a software program that evaluates an individual’s caries risk profile and illustrates it in graphic form, appears to classify patients more correctly than other risk prediction methods. Objectives: The objective of this study was to determine the caries risk of a population by means of the Cariogram® software and examine the relationships between the different variables used by the Cariogram® and the risk of caries determined by this program. Materials and Methods: Data were collected from a sample of 48 young individuals by clinical and radiological examination, saliva sampling and a dietar…
Oral health survey of the child population in the Valencia Region of Spain (2004)
Introducción (fundamento y objetivo): La finalidad de establecer una periodicidad sexenal para estudiar la evolución de salud oral infantil unido a importantes cambios demográficos asociados con la inmigración en la Comunidad Valenciana han motivado este trabajo. Material y método: Con una muestra seleccionada al azar de 509 niños de 6 años, 478 de 12 años y 401 de 15-16 años se ha realizado un estudio de corte transversal. Los exploraciones clínicas fueron realizadas por odontólogos calibrados (Kappa > 0.85). Resultados: La prevalencia de caries en dentición temporal a los 6 años es del 32% (Icod=1.08) y en dentición permanente es de 42.5% a los 12 años (ICAOD=1.07) y del 55.9% a los 15-16…
Aesthetic assessment of the effect of gingival exposure in the smile of patients with unilateral and bilateral maxillary incisor agenesis.
Purpose: The aim of this study was to determine the dental esthetic perception of the smile of patients with maxillary lateral incisor agenesis (MLIA); the perceptions were examined pre- and post-treatment. Esthetic determinations were made with regard to the gingival exposure in the patients¿ smile by orthodontists, general dentists, and laypersons. Materials and Methods: Three hundred eighty one people (80 orthodontists, 181 general dentists, 120 laypersons) rated the attractiveness of the smile in four cases before and after treatment, comprising two cases with unilateral MLIA and contralateral microdontia and two with bilateral MLIA. For each case, the buccal photograph was adjusted usi…
Evaluation of treatment outcomes in a 3 years post-graduate orthodontic program using the peer assessment rating (par)
Objectives: To maintain high treatment quality it is important to evaluate orthodontic treatment results using objec - tive methods. Outcome assessments allow private practitioners and university students to evaluate their results and raise the level of treatment outcomes. The aim of this study was to assess the orthodontic treatment outcome in a post-graduate orthodontics program in the University of Valencia (Spain) and to determine whether the treatment outcome is related to several factors as gender, age at start of the treatment, treatment duration, treatment method, extraction-non extraction treatment and cooperation needed. Material and Methods: A sample of 50 patients treated in the…
Relación entre caries y tabaquismo pasivo entre los escolares de 12 y 15 años de la Comunidad valenciana.
Se ha estudiado la prevalencia de caries tanto en dentición temporal (DT) como en permanente (DP) y los valores de los índices CAO.D y co.d de los escolares de la Comunidad Valenciana (CV) teniendo en consideración la variable tabaquismo pasivo dentro del hogar familiar. Se diseñó un estudio transversal descriptivo y analítico en el que se incluyeron escolares de 12 y 15 años en un muestreo representativo por conglomerados. En total fueron 456 escolares de 12 años y 433 escola- res de 15 años, a los que se les realizó un examen intraoral y posteriormente cumplimentaron un cuestionario de hábitos y atención bucodental. En los niños que conviven con un familiar fumador no se han encontrado di…