title: Prevalence of oral lesions in the 6-year-old pediatric population of Oviedo (Spain).
abstract: 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.
authors: Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Oviedo, C/ Julian Claveria s/n 33006, OVIEDO, Spain.
authors: M J
authors: MJ
authors: Garcia-Pola
authors: J M
authors: JM
authors: Garcia-Martin
authors: M
authors: M
authors: Gonzalez-Garcia
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009059:Mouth Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*; D015995:Prevalence; D013030:Spain / Q000453:epidemiology