Prevalence of dental Maloclusions in schoolchildren of 12 years in the Bellavista parish, Cuenca, 2016

Abstract

The objective of the present study was to determine the prevalence of malocclusions in 12-year-old schoolchildren from the Bellavista urban parish of Cuenca city in Ecuador. It is an bservational, transverse and exploratory study in which
were observed 111 schoolchildren of 12 years age, which of them 62 were women (56%) and 49 boys (44%), the study was realized before the calibration of their examiners, assent of his parents and the assent of the students. All examinations
were realized by natural light, before recess and taking care of the aspects of asepsis and antisepsis. All the information registered in the epidemiological card of the Catholic University of Cuenca. The prevalence of malocclusions was 77% in
the total number of students; 23% of schoolchildren registered a normal occlusion; When related by sex, the female gender obtained a prevalence of 44% and the male sex 33%. In this study it was concluded that there is a significant prevalence of
malocclusions in the Bellavista parish of Cuenca city, and malocclusion is more frequent in women than in men. Respect of the molar relationship the class I according to Angle’s classification is the one with the highest prevalence.