Abstract

JIMENEZ PALACIOS, Cecilia; BRITO, Federico; ORTIZ, Virginia  and  VIRGUEZ, Yaidilis. Identificación de entidades patológicas en los tejidos blandos bucales de la población rural infantil y adolescente de la unidad educativa  padre luis ormieres “fe y alegria”  de maturin, estado monagas en el período agosto - noviembre 2005. Acta odontol. venez [online]. 2008, vol.46, n.1, pp.36-40. ISSN 0001-6365.

The Odontopediatric is the responsibele of taking care children and adolescent, who must have into consideration the possibility of finding bucal lesions at this group of people. The purpose of this research was to determine bucal lesions in soft tissue in children and adolescent’s group at Unidad Educativa Padre Luis Ormieres "Fe y Alegria" of a rural region, located in Maturín, Edo. Monagas, Venezuela, from August 2005 - November 2005. The present research was did it in a group of 875 patients between 3 and 17 years old, from which 205 patients (23,42%) showed 211 lesions equivalent to 1.02% of lesions in soft tissue; famele population was the most prevalent with 53%; the most lesions more frequents were the Traumatic Ulcer with 24.2%, followed by Geographic Language with 13.3%, Nevus 11.84%, Traumatic Fibroma 10.42%, Spot Melanótica 10%, Smaller Recurrent Afta 6.63%, Mucoceles 4.73%, Leucoplasia 4.26%, Morsiscatum Bucare and Herpes Recurrent Labial 2.36%, Papiloma 1.9%, Angular Queilitis 1.42%, Glositis Average Romboidea, Cyst Gingival and Queratosis Friccional with 0.94% and Hair Hemangioma, Impétigo, Peripheral Fibroma, Gingivoestomatitis Herpética, Actinic Queilitis Candidiasis Atrófica and Estomatitis Subprotésica each one with 0,47%; the age of greater prevalence was between 12 and 14 years of age 26% and the most frequent location was the lip with 54% followed by cheek 20%, language 19%, encia 4%, to paladar 2% and perinasal region 1%. The racially mixed race was the one of greater prevalence with 71%. With this study the most frequent injuries in children and adolescents in a rural population are demonstrated, with the purpose of waking up to the Odontologico union and in the different services of public attention the necessities to diagnose and to give treatment to the different buccal pathologies creating conscience in the population about the importance on time of detecting and of treating the diverse pathologies in children and adolescents.

Keywords : Lesiones Patológicas; Lesiones Bucales; Epidemiología; Niños; Adolescentes; Patologicas Injuries; Oral Injuries; Epidemiologia; Children; Adolescents.