Medisan (Oct 2017)
Clinical and epidemiological characterization of special patients with chronic gingivitis
Abstract
A descriptive and cross-sectional study of 59 special patients with chronic gingivitis, assisted in “Julián Grimau García” Teaching Polyclinic was carried out in Santiago de Cuba, from March, 2016 to January, 2017, aimed at characterizing them according to clinical and epidemiologic variables of interest. Among the main results, there was a prevalence of the male sex (72.9%), 10-14 age group (64.4%), primary school level (40.7%), as well as the inadequate oral hygiene (81.3%) as risk factor; among the latter, most of them presented chronic edematous gingivitis (79.2%) and severe inflammation (76.2%). The inadequate practice of dental brushing, due to the intellectual incapacity of this type of patient, favored the emergence of this disease.
