Antibiotic prophylaxis involves the use of drugs at a preoperative stage of dental care, with a specific aim of contributing to the prevention of systemic infections such as infectious endocarditis (IE) associated with transient bacteremia due to dental procedures that involve bleeding in patients at high risk of complication due to their non-cardiac or cardiac systemic condition. This potential complication inflames the inner lining of the heart valves, due to the proliferation of specific microorganisms, and although it is uncommon, it is responsible for a high rate of morbidity and mortality. In 2007, the American Heart Association (AHA) published the last current update in the literature on the recommendations and guidelines applied for the use of antibiotic prophylaxis. The aim of this review is to develop a synthesis of existing evidence followed by an honest assessment of the risk...

Objetivo: Relacionar el índice CPOD con la limitación en hablar claramente en escolares de 12 años, parroquia San Sebastián Cuenca - Ecuador, 2016. Materiales y métodos: Estudio descriptivo, cuantitativo y relacional. Se evaluó una muestra de 281 escolares de la parroquia San Sebastián en Cuenca - Ecuador. Se realizó la correlación de las variables mediante la prueba estadística de Tau Kendall. Resultados: La muestra fue distribuida de acuerdo al sexo, siendo un 54.4% masculino y un 45.6% femenino. La correlación de las variables dio como resultado -0.040. Conclusión: Se evidenció que el CPOD y el hablar claramente tuvo una relación negativa inversa, es decir que cuando la variable independiente crece la variable dependiente decrece y viceversa, esto demuestra que no existe relación. Se deberían emplear más estudios para aclarar esta brecha del conocimiento.

     Objetive: To determine the prevalence of caries in schoolchildren of 6 years of age in the Machángara parish of the Cuenca city in 2016. Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional descriptive study was carried out on epidemiological aspects, the sample consisted of 104 patients of 6 years old, of which 58% corresponded to females and 42% to males. For the detection of the disease the operators were calibrated and standardized in universal criteria of the World Health Organization on the use of epidemiological indexes applied to the primary dentition. Results: The results obtained showed that the prevalence of caries in the 6-year-old students of the Machángara parish is 87.50%. It was also found that the distribution of the disease according to sex is higher in the female sex with a percentage 59%, compared to the male sex that has a percentage of 41%. Conclusions: Dental caries...