Abstract

ALMEIDA, Tatiana Frederico de; CANGUSSU, Maria Cristina Teixeira; CHAVES, Sônia Cristina Lima  and  AMORIM, Thaís Marques. Oral health status of children, adolescents, and adults registered in Family Health Units Service in the Municipality of Salvador, State of Bahia, Brazil, in 2005. Epidemiol. Serv. Saúde [online]. 2012, vol.21, n.1, pp.109-118. ISSN 1679-4974.  http://dx.doi.org/10.5123/S1679-49742012000100011.

OBJECTIVE: to describe oral health conditions of children, adolescents and adults residents in areas of the Family Health Strategy in the Municipality of Salvador, State of Bahia, Brazil, in 2005. METHODS: cross sectional study in a population of 1.258 infants, 1.286 adolescents and 1.249 adults; the exams were carried out in schools and residences. RESULTS: the percentage of caries free individuals variedfrom 51.1 to 1.3%, according to age; caries severity also increasedfrom childhood to adulthood (number of decayed, missing andfilled teeth - DMF-T index 1,4 and 14,1, respectively); lower and upper prosthesis need was frequent in adolescence (13.8% and 6.2%, respectively) and between adults (79.7% and 70.1%, respectively); the prevalence of fluorosis was 18.0% in children and 9.0% in adolescents. CONCLUSION: it was observed high prevalence and severity of oral problems; epidemiology applied to health services can collaborate on planning and monitoring actions conduced to identify problems.

Keywords : health services epidemiology; dental caries; dental fluorosis; dental prosthesis; health services; cross-sectional study.

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