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Revista Salud Uninorte
Print version ISSN 0120-5552On-line version ISSN 2011-7531
Abstract
HENRIQUEZ-PINTO, YARITZA et al. Incidence of Dentoalveolar Trauma in patients treated by the Public Health System in Chile. Salud, Barranquilla [online]. 2022, vol.38, n.3, pp.742-756. Epub May 26, 2023. ISSN 0120-5552. https://doi.org/10.14482/sun.38.3.614.
Introducción:
Dentoalveolar traumas are defined as a set of injuries that compromise the teeth or their periodontal structures, as a consequence of a direct or indirect violent impact. They constitute a public health problem worldwide.
Objective.
To describe the trend of the incidence of dentoalveolar trauma according to age groups in patients from the National Health Fund reported in Primary Health Care and Specialty Centers in Chile during the period 2008-2018.
Methods:
The research carried out in the present work is of a descriptive transversal type. Age-specific incidence rates were calculated between 2008 and 2014 for Primary Health Care and these same rates in Specialty Centers between 2009-2018.
Results:
The results obtained allow us to observe that the trend in PHC decreased progressively and in Specialty Centers it increased in all years, except in the age range of 20-64 years. In the latter case, the number of years studied allowed the estimation of incidence rate projections towards the years 2019-2021, which indicate that there would be an increase.
Conclusions:
The registry of dentoalveolar traumas in Chile in the Public Health System is deficient to carry out research with representative populations. This makes it difficult to understand epidemiology and determine appropriate strategies.
Keywords : injuries; epidemiology; incidence.