Controle da placa bacteriana dentária e suas formas de registro

• Autor(a) principal: Rovida, Tânia Adas Saliba [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2010
• Outros Autores: Moimaz, Suzely Adas Saliba [UNESP], Arcieri, Renato Moreira [UNESP], Garbin, Clea Adas Saliba [UNESP], Lima, Daniela Pereira de [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://apcdaracatuba.com.br/revista/Volume_31_02_Jul_2010/v31n2.htm; http://hdl.handle.net/11449/133384
• topic: Oral hygiene index; Prevention and control; Dental plaque; Índice de higiene oral; Prevenção e controle; Placa dentária

Dental plaque is the principal etiological agent of periodontal disease, one of oral diseases more prevalent in the world. Due existence of relation between periodontal disease and oral hygiene, on the point of periodontal view, it was developed a growing interesting by experimental research and by clinical investigations. The knowledge of problem, its extension, severity, hypothetic cause is so valuable to establish prevention, control and treatment acts. In this form, the use of plaque index becomes more and more often, being valuable the determination of discriminatory power of them. The aim of this work was to describe and analyze principal forms to register of dental plaque aiming to subsidize the researcher and dental surgeon on adoption of most adequate method for their case. Data bases: Medline, Lilacs and BBO were consulted without limit to identify the format of register of each index described on literature. It was observed the use of Oral Hygiene Index on diverse ways like: clinical evaluation of dental plaque, in products evaluation works and dental Office; patients monitoring; instruction about hygiene and oral hygiene technique. It was noted that dental plaque indexes are useful and allows the register of different forms point out the importance of its use on clinical and researches practice.