Ernesto Smyth Chamosa

Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

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Margarita Taracido

Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

Juan Jesús Gestal Otero

Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

V. Vila Blázquez

Polícia Judiciária

Agustín Montes

Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Epidemiología y Salud Pública

A. Guldris Vázquez

Joel Joshi Otero

Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel

Xoan Carlos López Rábade

Paula Fernández-Riveiro

Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

Juan Muinelo-Lorenzo

Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

Jesús Varela Mallou

Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

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Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Santiago

Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Epidemiología y Salud Pública

Instituto de Salud Carlos III

Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Santiago

Complexo Hospitalario Universitario A Coruña

Centre for Biomedical Network Research on Rare Diseases

Center for Research in Molecular Medicine and Chronic Diseases

Universidad de Oviedo

Universidad de Santiago de Chile

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Oral health knowledge

Ernesto Smyth Chamosa Francisco Caamaño‐Isorna Paula Fernández-Riveiro

Objective: The objective of this study was to assess the association between knowledge, attitudes and practice of oral health in 12-year-old schoolchildren, and to analyse the findings in terms of the conventional KAP health-education model and of the critical approach. Study design: This study has a cross sectional design. The study participants were 1105 randomly selected 12-year-old children resident in the region of Galicia in Spain. For data collection, five teams of one dentist and one assistant were formed. The dentist carried out the physical examination and the assistant helped the subjects to answer the questionnaire. Knowledge, attitudes and practice were assessed, as well as oral health indicators. Multiple regression analysis was used to identify variables affecting practice (as measured by extent of plaque). Results: The results of this study show how that there is an important association between oral health knowledge, attitudes, and practice in 12-year-old schoolchildren in this region. However, the results also show that attitude is not totally explained by knowledge, so that attitude cannot be understood simply as an intermediate variable in a knowledge→ practice causal chain. Specifically, the results indicate that sociocultural environment modifies the association knowledge, attitudes and practice. Conclusions: Within oral health education it is clearly important to increase public knowledge of the risk factors for dental disease. However, the efficacy of such education will be limited if health programs do not directly impinge on attitudes, and take into account factors related to the environment, education, social status and economic level of the targeted population.

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La salud bucodental en los escolares gallegos. 1995

Revista Española de Salud Pública (1998)

Virginia Lorenzo García Ernesto Smyth Chamosa Xurxo Hervada Vidal Rubén Fernández Casal José Ma Alonso Meijide

FUNDAMENTO: Conocer el estado de la salud bucodental de los escolares gallegos de 6 y 12 años y valorar su aproximación a los objetivos de salud bucodental de la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) para el año 2000. MÉTODOS: Estudio transversal observacional, realizado en 1995 a un grupo de escolares gallegos de 6 y 12 años elegidos a través de muestreo polietápico por conglomerados, estratificado por provincias y tipo de hábitat. RESULTADOS: Fueron estudiados 1.288 escolares, 643 en el grupo de 6 años y 645 en el grupo de 12 años. El 46,7% de los niños de 6 años y el 64,2% de los de 12 años presentaron caries, lo que supone un índice co de 1,84 y un índice CAO de 1,60 respectivamente. CONCLUSIONES: Se comprueba una evolución favorable de la salud bucodental de los escolares gallegos. Se han conseguido los objetivos, en salud bucodental, propuestos por la OMS para el año 2000 en la región europea, por lo que se proponen nuevos objetivos.

10.1590/s1135-57271998000600007

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Estudio epidemiológico de la caries dental en la población escolar del Ayuntamiento de Guititiz

Archivos de odontoestomatología (1999)

Xoan Carlos López Rábade Ernesto Smyth Chamosa

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Enfermedad periodontal y menopausia

Archivos de odontoestomatología (2005)

Ernesto Smyth Chamosa A. Guldris Vázquez V. Vila Blázquez

Los cambios hormonales que se producen durante la menopausia pueden ser un factor de riesgo para los tejidos periodontales. Para ello se ha revisado una poblacion de 100 mujeres que se encontraban en los primeros siete anos de menopausia. Se les realizo una entrevista y posteriormente una revision dental, valorando el indice de placa, indice periodontal comunitario, perdida de insercion periodontal y numero de piezas dentales ausentes, comparando el estado periodontal entre las que recibian terapia hormonal sustitutiva (TSH) y las que no recibian ningun tipo de TSH. Los resultados muestran que el grupo que recibia algun tipo de complemento hormonal presentaba mejor estado de salud periodontal que el grupo que no recibia terapia hormonal. No obstante, se necesitan mas estudios para determinar en que medida la mejor salud periodontal de ese grupo se debe a la terapia hormonal y en que medida se dee a las medidas higienicas.

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Critical anatomic region of nasopalatine canal based on tridimensional analysis: cone beam computed tomography

Scientific Reports (2015)

Ana M. Fernández‐Alonso Juan Suárez‐Quintanilla Juan Muinelo-Lorenzo Jesús Varela Mallou Ernesto Smyth Chamosa

The study aim of this was to define the critical anatomic region of the premaxilla by evaluating dimensions of nasopalatine canal, buccal bone plate (BBP) and palatal bone plate (PBP). 230 CBCTs were selected with both, one or no upper central incisors present (+/+, -/+, -/-) and periodontal condition was evaluated. T-student test, ANOVA, Pearson's correlation and a multivariant-linear regression model (MLRM) were used. Regarding gender, significant differences at level 1 (lower NC) were found for: buccal-palatal, transversal and sagittal NC diameters, and NC length (NCL). Regarding dental status, significant differences were found for: total BBP length (tBL) and PBP width (PW2) at level 2 (NCL midpoint). NCL was correlated with PW2, tBL, and PBP length at level 3 (foramina of Stenson level). An MLRM had a high prediction value for NCL (69.3%). Gender is related to NC dimensions. Dental status has an influence on BBP dimensions, but does not influence on NC and PBP. Periodontal condition should be evaluated for precise premaxillae analysis NC diameters at the three anatomical planes are related to each other, while NCL is related to BBP and PBP lengths. A third of premaxilla is taken up by NC, thus, establishing the critical anatomic region.

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Epidemiología y prevención de las caries y las enfermedades periodontales

Juan Jesús Gestal Otero Ernesto Smyth Chamosa Emili Cuenca Sala

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El flúor en la prevención de la caries dental

Ernesto Smyth Chamosa Margarita Taracido Juan Jesús Gestal Otero

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Últimas acciones que nos acercan más a un ambiente saludable

Maria Lourdes Maceiras Garcia Cristina de la Torre Fernandez A. Montes María Remedios Aguiar González-Redondo Ernesto Smyth Chamosa

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Tabaco y salud oral en estudiantes de la Universidad de Santiago de Compostela

RCOE (2007)

Paula Fernández-Riveiro Patricia Gonzálvez Becerra Catherine Leis Filloy Ernesto Smyth Chamosa

Objective.The aim of this study was to describe the habits related to oral health and to determine the patterns of tobacco smoking among students at the University of Santiago de Compostela.Material and Methods.Advanced students in dentistry carried out a survey on habits and an examination of the oral cavity of their peers.They also determined CO concentration in exhaled air.Results.The questionnaires were answered by 1279 students, 27.5% of which were male and 72.5% female.The mean age of the sample was 21.4 years.Among respondents, 90% washed their teeth after eating, above 80% spent more than 1 minute in their oral hygiene and used an average of more than 3 toothbrushes per year.Nearly 100% of the sample visited the dentist.We performed 342 examinations which resulted in a DMF rate of 3.71 and a restoration rate of 70.8%; 32.4% of the population smoked an average of 11.5 cigarettes per day.The most frequent starting age of the habit was 16 years-old.No significant differences were found between smokers and non smokers for most of the studied variables with the exceptions of the presence of discolored teeth, the amount of toothpaste used for brushing teeth and the subjective perception of oral health.The average value of expired CO in smokers was 12.6.Conclusions.Among students of our university there is a high degree of awareness concerning oral health.Tobacco smoking habit is less frequent than in the general population in the same age range.There were no differences between smokers and non smokers for oral health and oral health habits.

10.4321/s1138-123x2007000100002

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[Vaccination for the hepatitis B virus in primary care health staff: prevalence, affecting factors and need].

PubMed (1998)

Fuente Ferreiro Ernesto Smyth Chamosa Antonio Moure Figueiras

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