Issste promotes measures to prevent tooth decay, the greatest risk to oral health / @drpedrozenteno @ISSSTE_mx >>>

#ISSSTE.- Dental caries, the most common disease in the human mouth, affects 93.3 percent of adults in Mexico and can be prevented with three basic measures promoted by the Institute of Security and Social Services for State Workers (Issste): proper hygiene, avoiding the consumption of sweets, and timely and regular visits to the dentist, said Rigoberto Espinosa Santos, coordinator of orthodontic services at the «Dr. Honorato Villa Acosta» Dental Specialties Clinic.

Reports from the Epidemiological Surveillance System of Oral Pathologies (Sivepab) 2020 bit.ly/3I7vT6a report that in our country severe caries in early childhood (CSIT) affected 40.8 percent of the population between three and five years old; 88 percent of children from two to 10 years old presented caries in primary dentition and 86.67 percent of people from 6 to 19 years old in permanent teeth.

In view of this situation, Issste’s general director, Pedro Zenteno Santaella, acknowledged the important work carried out by dentists in the country’s first level medical units, Child Wellness and Development Centers (EBDI) and the Dental Specialties Clinic, in favor of the integral wellbeing of members. He also expressed his congratulations on the occasion of the Dentist’s Day, which was commemorated on the 9th of this month, and thanked them for their commitment to the preventive health model.

The specialist Espinosa Santos pointed out that other of the main causes of dental malocclusions, position and alignment problems, and the way in which the upper and lower teeth are adjusted, situations that can largely be prevented by eradicating bad habits, are among the main causes of consultation in the Issste child and adolescent population.

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