Nivel de cumplimiento de las fases del tratamiento periodontal en pacientes que asistieron a las clínicas odontológicas de la universidad Santo Tomás sede Floridablanca y Bucaramanga durante el año académico del 2016

Abstract

Introduction: The periodontal treatment plan is the guideline for case management, which includes all necessary procedures for the establishment and maintenance of gingival health. It is performed in a sequence of phases that can vary depending on the needs of each case. Objective: To determine the level of compliance of the phases of periodontal treatment in patients attending the dental clinics of the Santo Tomás University, located in Floridablanca and Bucaramanga during the academic year of 2016. Materials and methods: An observational, cross-sectional, 171 clinical histories were considered that met all the selection criteria. Socio-demographic variables, semester, systemic commitment, periodontal diagnosis, periodontal treatment phases were evaluated. To guide the investigation of this project, the STROBE checklist was used. Results: The maintenance phase had a higher level of noncompliance (99.4%), followed by the reassessment phase (98.83%), for the phases that, depending on the course of the disease, are required to be required or not; The urgency phase, demanded by two people had a non-compliance of 50%; In the systemic phase, 69.57% attended the consultation for periodontal treatment and for the corrective phase, there was a high level of noncompliance of 78.87% for the required phases; In similarity, the hygienic phase presented a high level of non-compliance: 57.31%. Conclusions: Probably, the causes of high failure rates of periodontal treatment are due to weak strategies of education and motivation for the patient. The importance of the results of this study is to allow to base the creation, redesign and strengthening of interventions in the consultations to insist to the patient on the importance of assisting in the phases of reevaluation and maintenance, since it was evidenced in these two phases a high Percentage of default.