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SILVA FLORES, Xochitl Deyanira; RUIZ BENAVIDES, Raúl Carlos; CORNEJO BARRERA, Judith  y  LLANAS RODRIGUEZ, José Daniel. Prevalence of caries, gingivitis and malocclusions in school-age children in Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, and its relationship with their nutritional status. Rev. Odont. Mex [online]. 2013, vol.17, n.4, pp.221-227. ISSN 1870-199X.

Aim: Assessment of caries, gingivitis and malocclusion prevalence in school-age children in the city of Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, Mexico and determination of its relationship with their nutritional status. Methodology: A comparative, cross-sectional study was conducted on 402 school-age children (ages 7-12 years). These children could exhibit measurement of body composition. Children were randomly selected from the study list of ''Obesity in Tamaulipas' under 30 population, effects on health, treatment and prevention'' conducted in this hospital. All subjects provided written consent, thereafter, oral examination was performed in order to determine, according to WHO parameters, presence of dental caries, gingivitis and malocclusions. Version 9.0 of STRATA program was used to conduct statistical analysis. Results: 50% of school age children had never attended a dental office. 32.2% were overweight or obese. Caries prevalence was 87%, gingivitis was present in 63% of all cases, and malocclusions were present in 33% of patients. Ceo-d index was 2.97 and CPO-D was 3.08. Multivariate analysis revealed relationship between the ceo-d index with age (p = 0.00), with overweigh and obesity and with malocclusions (p = 0.016) as well as relationship between age and gingivitis (p = 0.01) and age and malocclusion (p = 0.042). Conclusions: Malocclusion and caries prevalence resulted similar to that observed in other studies performed in Mexico. Nevertheless, gingivitis was more frequent. In our casuistry; the most significant relationship was that found between ceo-d index with overweight and obesity.

Palabras llave : Prevalence; school-age children; caries; gingivitis; malocclusions; nutritional status.