Evaluación de un programa en salud oral dirigido a la población preescolar de el playón (Santander), en el 2018

Abstract

El Playón is a municipality in the department of Santander, located in the province of Soto Norte. Its population is made up of 5618 inhabitants according to the DANE for 2015. Based on the data provided by the Observatory of Public Health of Santander, for the Playon it was identified in 2009, 2010, and 2011 that 5.6%, 6 , 6%, and 6.3% (respectively); of the population in early childhood was affected by oral pathologies and 7% of the IPS of El Playón, had service enabled for preventive care in health and oral hygiene. A group of students of the Faculty of Dentistry of the University Santo Tomás conducted a program in oral health aimed at the preschool population of the Integrated Institute of Commerce Camilo Torres, consisting of 6 academic groups, with the aim of promoting the practice of self-measurement Beware of the accompaniment of teachers and parents. A community trial is implemented where the preschools are organized into two intervention groups (A and B) where they differ in that the first group has been formed by parents and teachers; the second group would be with the accompaniment of the teachers assigned to each classroom. The efficacy of the intervention in the two intervention groups was demonstrated with an initial global oral hygiene condition of 1.6 ± 0.7 compared to 1.1 ± 0.6 in the final exam, evaluated by means of the plaque index. Silness and Löe, it was demonstrated that the interventions made to this population had a direct impact to the condition of oral hygiene; however, the group that received support from the parents presented the results in the plaque index with respect to intervention group B