Prevalencia de caries dental en gestantes: revisión sistemática

Abstract

Introduction. Pregnant women are a vulnerable population and there is little information related to dental caries in pregnant women. This is a topic of great interest and obtaining the pertinent information with the evaluation of the articles that provide us the prevalences, Index COP and ICDAS, are implemented programs of health promotion and prevention of the disease that decreases the indices of caries in Pregnant women and in this way we would take care of your oral health more. Objective. To analyze through a systematic review of the prevalence of dental caries in pregnant women. Materials and methods. A total of 382 scientific articles were found in the PubMed and Scopus databases of the University of Santo Tomas by a search equation in which the prevalence of caries in pregnant women is established. Results. Of the totality of the articles selected, 240 did not contain the topic of interest, 96 were repeated and 27 were not cross-sectional studies; Finally, only 19 articles met the established criteria; They evaluated variables such as author, title, year of publication, language, database, country, journal, population, caries index, value, statistical significance and compliance with the stroboscopic guide. Conclusions. The prevalences of caries and pregnant found in the cross-sectional studies of the Scopus and Pubmed databases were high. The publishing activity on the subject has been increasing in recent years.