Higiene bucal dos pacientes em hemodiálise.

Abstract

Introduction: Oral hygiene practices of hemodialysis patients could turn better their health care and enable a successful kidney transplantation. However, this is not spoken subject in substitutionary therapy (hemodialysis) nowadays. Objectives: Evaluate kidney chronic patients oral hygiene in their hemodialysis treatment. Materials and methods: This is an analytic transversal observational study, which population were patients with chronic kidney disease, at the current service for hemodialysis treatment (UNI-RIM), at the 13° Health sectional coordination body, placed at Santa Cruz do Sul city - RS. The used technique to data gathering was interpersonal interview standardized and intraoral clinical exams, along with medical digital historic of the institution. Results: the sample was male predominance (59,21%), age between 22 – 89 years old. Among 76 research patients, 39,47% have full prosthesis, IPV average’s prevalence was 54,137%, and ISG’s 16,765%. Study’s results were analyzed among descriptive statistics and hypothesis tests. The meaningfulness level used as acceptance or rejection criterion on the statistical tests was 5% (p < 0,05). Conclusion: Evaluated hemodialysis patients have a precarious oral hygiene profile combined with high plaque prevalence and dental calculus, which proves the necessity of integral and diversity dental assistant to endure awareness and buccal health.