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- Title
Valoración del riesgo de caries: ¿mito o realidad?
- Authors
Gamboa, Luis Fernando; Cortés, Andrea
- Abstract
Dental caries is an imbalance between the biofilm and the tooth surface. Evidence indicates that multiple risk factors contribute to the clinical appearance of dental caries. Consequently, different systems for caries risk assessment (CRA) have been developed to predict the development of the disease, identifying and classifying the individual caries risk for each patient. Some of the CRA systems are Cariogram®, Cambra, the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry, and American Dental Association, which in general evaluate between 8 and 18 risk factors. Likewise, risk prediction models (RPM) have been developed based on multivariate logistic regression analysis. These models evaluate fewer risk factors than CRA; however, RPM are simple, accurate, fast and economical. This paper examines the accuracy of available CRA and RPM for assessing the risk of dental caries in Colombian population. As conclusion, we must follow or create a predictive model of caries valid and accurate, allowing for a simple, fast and economical value our people and give proper treatment to manage and control dental caries, as low or high risk.
- Publication
Universitas Odontológica, 2013, Vol 32, Issue 68, p69
- ISSN
0120-4319
- Publication type
Article