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Rev Med MD 2012; 3.4 (1)

Oral health profile on homeless people downtown of Guadalajara, Jalisco, MX

Hernández RMI, Silva GG, Marín ZJE, Cardona OJJ, Miranda MM, Díaz GIF, Manzo POR, Sanchez MAA

Language: Spanish
References: 16
Page: 9-12
PDF size: 600.40 Kb.


ABSTRACT

Background: In recent years, Jalisco has experienced problems of social interaction because of marginalization and exclusion of ample sectors of the population. Those who are homeless, or seem to be, have to face many obstacles to obtain preventive health care, curative and palliative. In the city of Guadalajara little is known about the oral health of the homeless population. According to the number of services given by the Secretary of Health there are more than 1600 subjects with the status of “homeless” and the records of social support estimates that could be more than 4000.
Objective: To identify the oral health status of a group of homeless people in Guadalajara, Jalisco, MX.
Material and methods: Through a health mobile unit belonging to the Civil Hospital of Guadalajara, the downtown homeless people were evaluated. It was performed an anthropometry, taking of vital signs and blood samples in which it was determined: Glucose, urea, serum creatinine, uric acid, total cholesterol, triglycerides, serology for antibodies HIV1, HIV1 and hepatitis A, B, and C; as well as a mouth health evaluation according to the criterion of the World Health Organization (1997).
Results: We studied 39 homeless people in the historic downtown of the city of Guadalajara (24 male and 15 females) with an age mean of 30.3 years from which 9 were teenagers. The prevalence oral pathology was caries (39, 100%), followed by the loss of pieces (58%) and the presence of filled pieces. The CPO vs DMF (decay/missing/filled) index was 12.61, highly elevated.
Conclusions: The data reflects the lacking or null dental care in this population that day by day grows in the city.


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