NIVEL DE CONOCIMIENTOS Y ACTITUDES PARA EL CUIDADO DE SALUD BUCAL QUE TIENEN LAS EMBARAZADAS QUE ACUDEN AL CONTROL PRENATAL EN LA CONSULTA EXTERNA DEL HOSPITAL DEL IESS EN PORTOVIEJO. MAYO-OCTUBRE 2006

Abstract

The purpose of this work was to explore the knowledge and attitudes of the pregnant women that help to The External consultation of the IESS Hospital Portoviejo, relating to the oral changes produced during the gestation. scientific knowledge backs up the fact that he permits the medical interventions made suitable for the control of buccal further prevalent illnesses to prevent them, to mitigate them or to revert them by means of a professional practice with emphasis in the diagnosis, in the identification of aspects conductuales and comportamentales and in the how-to rationalization preventive and qualifiers made suitable. Due to women's made pregnant increase that they require dental attention due to and help to The External consultation of the Hospital IESS Portoviejo, for it it is necessary to challenge the knowledge of responsible one belonging to dental practice; As well as the capability that they have to offer the service without laying eggs in danger the life of the patient of new being and. The general objective, describing the knowledge and habits of health dental buco in pregnant women that they resort to the external consultation of the Hospital of Portoviejo's IESS. study was a retrospective, cross-section study accomplished to 300 pregnant women that attend to the external consultation of the Hospital IESS Portoviejo, based in an opinion poll structured than consisti in 18 questions grouped, the ones that made possible knowing us: Age and Been Civilian, Fellows of Affiliation and Procedence; Occupation and other ones that meet in the thesis's final attachment. This information processed it to trav s of program Word, the same one than nos facilit the tabulaci n, checkered presentees and graficos be sticos. The human resources and materials were of a lot of help; And because no saying that of the econ little month they were the fundamental axle together with the institutional resource. They demonstrate aftermath to us that the one belonging to 27-30 has women's great population according to its age that assists to the control of pregnancy as is it years with the 60 %; Same ace the ones that attend to the prenatal control according to the fellow of affiliation and procedence, the pregnant women that come of the urban and urban marginal zone amount to the 55 % and they dedicate themselves in relation to qu we have than to the Quehaceres Dom sticos with the 38 %. We have nto to the superior level in cu that the pregnant women that have the superior instruction are the 41 %, the ones that vaginal childbirths have had that the 53 % and his h are coughs of buccal hygiene, than in his principal to he accomplishes them after food with the 47 % and those that utilize dental pasta and change his brush when gets damaged in a 39 %. Regarding pregnant women's bigger group that they utilize dental pasta regarding every month there is a 39 %, they consume milk and they utilize measured of prevenci n in a 21 % unlike the women than est n in the III gestaci's trimester n and they sell off of 5-7 controls during the pregnancy with the 34 % for ltimo and we have the pregnant women that suffer of tooth decay with the 57 %. All this demonstrates us existing a high inter s on the side of the pregnant women that help to The External consultation of the IESS's Hospital Portoviejo, in checking his health, since only they do not have to think about them, but tambi n they take that within them. Hence, it is necessary to generate conscience in the population of importance of buccal health to trav s of diffusion of software that they go in benefit of them.