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FERREIRA, Warli de Brito et al. Oral health of drugs users institutionalized. Enfermería Actual de Costa Rica [online]. 2018, n.35, pp.24-37. ISSN 1409-4568.  http://dx.doi.org/10.15517/revenf.v0i35.32429.

Drug use causes several health hazards to oral health, increasing the prevalence of dental caries and periodontal diseases, representing a serious public health problem. This study aimed to evaluate the prevalence of dental and periodontal caries in institutionalized drug users. It is an epidemiological, cross-sectional, census-based, analytical study with institutionalized drug users, carried out from August 2016 to June 2017. Standardized examiners applied a form to collect sociodemographic data and on drug consumption. Dental caries were evaluated through the DMFT index and periodontal disease through clinical indicators: bleeding at probing, plaque index, gingival index, probing depth and level of clinical insertion. A total of 112 males, mean age 36.7 years (Dp ± 11.5) were evaluated. The most commonly used drug was alcohol (92.0%) for about 19.4 years (Dp ± 11.08), followed by tobacco (70.95%) on average for 18.0 years (Dp ± 11.66), marijuana (65.2%) for 13.7 years (Dp ± 8.22), cocaine (53.3%) for 8.5 years (Dp ± 6.00) and crack (50.0%) for 11.1 year (Dp ± 7.18). It is concluded that the prevalence of caries was 97.3% and of periodontal disease 51.5%. The studied population presented high prevalence of dental caries and periodontal disease and there was a correlation between alcohol and tobacco use time with periodontal disease and with higher DMFT.

Palabras clave : dental-caries; drug-users; oral-health; periodontal-disease.

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