Estudio Epidemológico de Salud Oral en una Poblacion Infantil del centro de Estancia Tempotal de Inmigrantes de Melilla

Riatto, Sabrina Gonçalves

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“…There were more than 2000 residents in the Centre [20]. Traditionally, refugees came from Algeria, Morocco, Mali, Guinea, Cameroon, Nigeria, Chad, Angola, Gabon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Niger, Zimbabwe, Ivory Coast and from many more sub-Saharan countries and regions [21][22][23]. In recent years, the majority of war refugees came from Syria [24,25].…”

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Oral Health in migrants children in Melilla, Spain

et al. 2023

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Numerous developing countries’ socioeconomic and political issues resulted in a significant migratory phenomenon, which poses a health burden for the nations that receive migrant populations. Often, the greatest age group of migrants is children and teens. Oral problems are one of the most common reasons that immigrants in the receiving nations visit the healthcare system. Cross-sectional research was conducted on children and teenagers housed at the Temporary Stay Center for Immigrants (CETI) of the Autonomous City of Melilla (Spain) with the aim of identifying the state of the oral cavity of these group of migrants. Information on the condition of the research group’s oral cavity was gathered using the World Health Organization’s standards. The research comprised all of the children and teenagers who were enrolled in the CETI for a defined period of time. A total of 198 children were assessed. It was determined that 86.9% of the youngsters were of Syrian descent. There were 57.6% males and a 7.7 (±4.1) average age. The average caries index for children under the age of six was dft =6.4 (±6.3), and for children aged six to eleven, it was 7.5 (±4.8), taking into account both the temporary and permanent dentition, and for children aged twelve to seventeen, it was 4.7 (±4.0). A total of 50.6% of children between the ages of 6 and 11 needed extractions, compared to 36.8% of children under the age of 6. The population under study had a significant incidence of sextants where bleeding occurred during periodontal probing (mean 3.9 (±2.5)), according to an examination of the community periodontal index (CPI). It is crucial to study the oral cavity status of refugee children when designing intervention programs to improve their oral health and provide health education activities that favour the prevention of oral diseases.

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