Estado periodontal en adolescentes consumidores de sustancias sicoactivas ilícitas de un centro de rehabilitación en Bucaramanga

Abstract

Introduction: In patients with psychosocial disorders consumers illicit psychoactive substances pathologies are manifested in the mouth area as periodontal disease, cervical recessions, attrition, periodontal abscesses, raised lesions and other diseases as caries and pulp injuries. Aim: To describe the periodontal status in male adolescents 15-17 years old, users of illicit psychoactive substances, of a rehabilitation center in Bucaramanga. Methodology: observational, descriptive cross-sectional in adolescents 15-17 years of age, rehabilitation center HOGARES CLARET study; analysis measures of central tendency and dispersion; frequency or percentages for qualitative variables. Simple correlation. Results: incomplete secondary education level is dominant with 91.7%; brushing frequency 3 or more times, it is the most common 95%; and generally in diagnosis is regular oral hygiene 58.3%. inhalants consumption and loss of teeth with a value of less than 0.05, also a statistically significant difference between the enlargement and use of marijuana less than 0.05 was found. Conclusions: any association or statistical significance between the consumption of any substance in the presence or not of oral pathology (p> 0.05) was not found.