Utilização dos serviços odontológicos por pré-escolares no município de Santa Cruz do Sul (RS).

Abstract

Over the intervention performed in the first years of life, there is possible to achieve better oral health conditions. The researches have shown an increase in the dental services demand, those numbers still quite small through. The dental service prevalence has been widely associated with socioeconomic factors. Such as family income, scholar degree, maternal occupation, skin color, besides the age and the dental records as caries and trauma in the preschool children. The aim of this study was to estimate the prevalence of access to dental services and associated factors in children with 2 to 5 years old at town of Santa Cruz do Sul (RS). This cross-sectional study has performed in the D-day of the National Multiple Vaccines Campaign mobilization with 378 children. The exam has performed in the preschool children by calibrated examiners, which follow the established criteria by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the socioeconomic questionnaire that was applied to the parents/guardians by the interviewers. The preschoolers’ prevalence that already had use of dental services was 61,2%, which 31,9% of them looked for the public service. The main reason to use of dental services has been for prevention (47,1%). The adjusted analysis has shown the white children (RP 1,27; IC 95%; 1,02 – 1,59). Older children who have 4 to 5 years (RP 1,59; IC 95%; 1,33 – 1,91) and those who had mothers with higher scholar degree (RP 1,76; IC 95%: 1,24 – 2,48) have used more the dental services. In front of that, it has concluded the use of dental services still small and it is associated with socioeconomic factors, as the preschoolers children’ color skin and the maternal scholar degree.