%0 Journal Article
%T Maloclusiones en ni£¿os y adolescentes de caser¨ªos y comunidades nativas de la Amazon¨ªa de Ucayali, Per¨²
%A Aliaga-Del Castillo
%A Ar¨®n
%A Mattos-Vela
%A Manuel Antonio
%A Aliaga-Del Castillo
%A Rosalinda
%A Del Castillo-Mendoza
%A Claudia
%J Revista Peruana de Medicina Experimental y Salud P¨²blica
%D 2011
%I Instituto Nacional de Salud
%R 10.1590/S1726-46342011000100014
%X we conducted a cross-sectional descriptive study to assess the prevalence of malocclusions in children and adolescents aged 2 to 18 years of villages and native communities of the ucayali jungle of peru. we assessed the presence of malocclusions using angle¡¯s classification and orthodontic changes. we evaluated 201 individuals, 106 (52.7%) were women, most of them (54.7%) had between 6 and 12 years. the prevalence of malocclusions was 85.6%, the most prevalent according to angle¡¯s classification was class i (59.6%). orthodontic alterations were present in 67.2% of cases. the most frequent were dental crowding (28.4%), anterior crossbite (17.4%), exaggerated overjet (8.5%), excessive overbite (5.0%) and anterior open bite (5.0%). we found a high prevalence of malocclusion and orthodontic changes in the evaluated native communities, highlighting the need to implement preventive programs to improve the oral health of these negleted populations.
%K malocclusion
%K oral health
%K population groups
%K chid
%K adolescent
%K peru.
%U http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1726-46342011000100014&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en