Simplified oral hygiene index in Cuenca schoolchildren - Ecuador

Abstract

The main objective of this study is to determine the Oral Hygiene Index in 12-year-old schoolchildren, in the El Sagrario parish in the city of Cuenca, Ecuador during 2016. It is a retrospective descriptive study, in which 141 index cards were evaluated Epidemiological data corresponding to the 12-year-old schoolchildren of the parish "El Sagrario", the same ones that are filed in the Research Department of the Dentistry of the UCACUE. The Greene and Vermillion oral hygiene index codes were used. The distribution of the sample according to sex was 52 \% for males and 48 \% for females, an index of 0.86 for soft plaque and an index of 0.1 for calcified plaque was obtained, giving a higher prevalence in sex In turn, the oral hygiene index in the El Sagrario parish was found to be 61 \% of good oral hygiene and the lowest with excellent 12 \%. The simplified oral hygiene index, studied in this sample, indicates that the 12-year-old schoolchildren of El Sagrario parish are within the parameters of good oral hygiene, according to the scale suggested by Greene and Vermillion.