Prevalence of oral lesions in the 6-year-old pediatric population of Oviedo (Spain).
OBJECTIVE
The present study investigates the prevalence of oral diseases in children in the city of Oviedo (Spain).


METHODS
A representative sample was selected from among the 6-year-old children in Oviedo (n= 786), involving a protocol developed for pediatric oral diseases.


RESULTS
A total of 344 lesions were detected in 243 children. The most common disorder was saburral tongue (16,02%), followed by traumatisms (12.17%) and geographic tongue (4.48%). The prevalence of aphthous stomatitis was 2.24% and herpes labialis was 1,6%. Ankyloglossia was observed in 2.08% of cases, and a hypertrophic lip frenulum in 1.28%.


CONCLUSIONS
In this study shows the prevalence of the lesions of the oral mucosa in the Spanish population of 6 year-old. Of the results of the present study comes off that the objectives sanitary oral publics and deprived in this field they should go focused toward: 1) the eradication of illnesses of local cause (language saburral, traumatic ulcerations, etc.) for their high prevalencia; and, 2) the precocious diagnosis of anomalies of the development (anquiloglosias and labial frenum) for their relationship with dysfunctions of the phonation and future malocclusions.
Garcia-Pola
M J
MJ
Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Oviedo, C/ Julian Claveria s/n 33006, OVIEDO, Spain.
Garcia-Martin
J M
JM
Gonzalez-Garcia
M
M
D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009059:Mouth Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*; D015995:Prevalence; D013030:Spain / Q000453:epidemiology