Prevalencia de sellantes de fosas y fisuras en pacientes pediátricos de la UCSG semestre A del 2022.

Abstract

ABTRACT: Introduction: Occlusal sealants were developed by Cueto and Buonocore specifically to prevent caries in the pit and fissure region and have been shown to be very effective in preventing occlusal caries in deep pits and fissures, where more than two-thirds of total caries. Objective: To determine factors to consider in the application of pit and fissure sealants at UCSG during the semester A 2022. Materials and methods: it is a quantitative clinical study, descriptive design. Results: among the criteria selected by the students to apply sealants, a result was obtained of 50% who selected deep pits and fissures, 19.5% for presenting incipient caries on the occlusal surface, 17% for high risk of dental caries identified and 13.5% because they were recently erupted teeth; the most used type of sealants was the resin sealant with 86.5% while the ionomeric sealant was obtained with 13.5%; 100% of students know the protocols to apply resinous and ionomeric sealants, 100% of students use relative isolation; the sealants were applied to the permanent teeth in the first molars and when identifying the permanent dental piece in which the most sealants were performed, it was the lower left first permanent molar with an application percentage of 27% and in the temporary teeth they were applied in the first and second molars and in the piece that was applied the most was in the second lower right primary molar with an application percentage of 16% and the ceo caries index in the population under study, the value obtained was 4.51, quantifying to the population with a high caries index for primary teeth. Discussion: In our research, 86.5% of students prefer to place resinous sealants, similar to the result obtained by Asem Alkhodairi in 2019, who in his study states that 83.33% of professionals prefer to use a resin-based sealant. resin. Conclusion: The most used criterion was the placement of sealants in deep pits and fissures, the most used type of sealant was the resin sealant together with the type of polymerization that was photopolymerizable, the technique most used by the students was relative isolation and cleaning. occlusal surface following the sealant protocol, the piece where the sealants of pits and fissures were applied the most in permanent teeth was thirty-six and in temporary teeth was eighty-five and the ceo index gave a high value.