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Prevalence of alveolar bone loss in healthy children treated at private pediatric dentistry clinics

OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of alveolar bone loss (BL) in healthy children treated at private pediatric dentistry clinics in Brasília, Brazil. MATERIAL AND METHODS: The research included 7,436 sites present in 885 radiographs from 450 children. The BL prevale...

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Autores principales: GUIMARÃES, Maria do Carmo Machado, de ARAÚJO, Valéria Martins, AVENA, Márcia Raquel, DUARTE, Daniel Rocha da Silva, FREITAS, Francisco Valter
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Faculdade de Odontologia de Bauru da Universidade de São Paulo 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5349043/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20857009
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1678-77572010000300016
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author GUIMARÃES, Maria do Carmo Machado
de ARAÚJO, Valéria Martins
AVENA, Márcia Raquel
DUARTE, Daniel Rocha da Silva
FREITAS, Francisco Valter
author_facet GUIMARÃES, Maria do Carmo Machado
de ARAÚJO, Valéria Martins
AVENA, Márcia Raquel
DUARTE, Daniel Rocha da Silva
FREITAS, Francisco Valter
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description OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of alveolar bone loss (BL) in healthy children treated at private pediatric dentistry clinics in Brasília, Brazil. MATERIAL AND METHODS: The research included 7,436 sites present in 885 radiographs from 450 children. The BL prevalence was estimated by measuring the distance from the cementoenamel junction (CEJ) to alveolar bone crest (ABC). Data were divided in groups: (I) No BL: distance from CEJ to ABC is ≤2 mm; (II) questionable BL (QBL): distance from CEJ to ABC is >2 and <3 mm; (III) definite BL (DBL): distance from CEJ to ABC ≥3 mm. Data were treated by the chi-square nonparametric test and Fisher's exact test (p<0.05). RESULTS: Among males, 89.31% were classified in group I, 9.82% were classified in group II and 0.85% in group III. Among females, 93.05%, 6.48% and 0.46% patients were classified in Group I, II and III, respectively. The differences between genders were not statistically significant (Chi-square test, p = 0.375). Group composition according to patients’ age showed that 91.11% of individuals were classified as group I, 8.22% in group II and 0.67% in group III. The differences among the age ranges were not statistically significant (Chi-square test, p = 0.418). The mesial and distal sites showed a higher prevalence of BL in the jaw, QBL (89.80%) and DBL (79.40%), and no significant difference was observed in the distribution of QBL (Fisher’s exact test p = 0.311) and DBL (Fisher’s exact test p = 0.672) in the dental arches. The distal sites exhibited higher prevalence of both QBL (77.56%) and DBL (58.82%). CONCLUSIONS: The periodontal status of children should never be underestimated because BL occurs even in healthy populations, although in a lower frequency.
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spelling pubmed-53490432017-03-17 Prevalence of alveolar bone loss in healthy children treated at private pediatric dentistry clinics GUIMARÃES, Maria do Carmo Machado de ARAÚJO, Valéria Martins AVENA, Márcia Raquel DUARTE, Daniel Rocha da Silva FREITAS, Francisco Valter J Appl Oral Sci Original Articles OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of alveolar bone loss (BL) in healthy children treated at private pediatric dentistry clinics in Brasília, Brazil. MATERIAL AND METHODS: The research included 7,436 sites present in 885 radiographs from 450 children. The BL prevalence was estimated by measuring the distance from the cementoenamel junction (CEJ) to alveolar bone crest (ABC). Data were divided in groups: (I) No BL: distance from CEJ to ABC is ≤2 mm; (II) questionable BL (QBL): distance from CEJ to ABC is >2 and <3 mm; (III) definite BL (DBL): distance from CEJ to ABC ≥3 mm. Data were treated by the chi-square nonparametric test and Fisher's exact test (p<0.05). RESULTS: Among males, 89.31% were classified in group I, 9.82% were classified in group II and 0.85% in group III. Among females, 93.05%, 6.48% and 0.46% patients were classified in Group I, II and III, respectively. The differences between genders were not statistically significant (Chi-square test, p = 0.375). Group composition according to patients’ age showed that 91.11% of individuals were classified as group I, 8.22% in group II and 0.67% in group III. The differences among the age ranges were not statistically significant (Chi-square test, p = 0.418). The mesial and distal sites showed a higher prevalence of BL in the jaw, QBL (89.80%) and DBL (79.40%), and no significant difference was observed in the distribution of QBL (Fisher’s exact test p = 0.311) and DBL (Fisher’s exact test p = 0.672) in the dental arches. The distal sites exhibited higher prevalence of both QBL (77.56%) and DBL (58.82%). CONCLUSIONS: The periodontal status of children should never be underestimated because BL occurs even in healthy populations, although in a lower frequency. Faculdade de Odontologia de Bauru da Universidade de São Paulo 2010 /pmc/articles/PMC5349043/ /pubmed/20857009 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1678-77572010000300016 Text en http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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DUARTE, Daniel Rocha da Silva
FREITAS, Francisco Valter
Prevalence of alveolar bone loss in healthy children treated at private pediatric dentistry clinics
title Prevalence of alveolar bone loss in healthy children treated at private pediatric dentistry clinics
title_full Prevalence of alveolar bone loss in healthy children treated at private pediatric dentistry clinics
title_fullStr Prevalence of alveolar bone loss in healthy children treated at private pediatric dentistry clinics
title_full_unstemmed Prevalence of alveolar bone loss in healthy children treated at private pediatric dentistry clinics
title_short Prevalence of alveolar bone loss in healthy children treated at private pediatric dentistry clinics
title_sort prevalence of alveolar bone loss in healthy children treated at private pediatric dentistry clinics
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5349043/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20857009
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1678-77572010000300016
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