Objective: Candida albicans is an opportunistic fungus responsible for persistent oral and endodontic infections, whose prevalence has increased due to resistance to conventional antifungal treatments. In this context, natural compounds with antifungal activity represent a promising alternative. This study aimed to evaluate the antifungal activity of the ethanolic extract of Curcuma longa L. (EECl) against C. albicans ATCC 10231. Materials and Methods: The antifungal activity was assessed using the agar well diffusion method. EECl was tested at concentrations of 100, 50, 25, and 12.5 mg/mL. Nystatin was used as the positive control. After inoculation of the fungal strain on YPG agar and loading of the wells with the corresponding solutions, plates were incubated and inhibition zones were measured in millimeters. Results: All concentrations of EECl showed antifungal activity, with larger ...

El estudio tuvo como objetivo evaluar la actividad antimicrobiana y antibiofilm del extracto etanólico de Curcuma longa L. frente a Enterococcus faecalis y Candida albicans. Se desarrolló una investigación experimental, in vitro, prospectiva y comparativa, en la que se analizó la susceptibilidad antimicrobiana mediante el método de difusión en disco sobre agar, utilizando cuatro concentraciones del extracto (100, 50, 25 y 12,5 mg/mL), con clorhexidina y nistatina como controles positivos y dimetilsulfóxido (DMSO) como control negativo. La actividad antibiofilm se determinó mediante el método de microdilución en placa de 96 pozos, evaluando la viabilidad celular del biofilm en concentraciones entre 2000 y 7,81 μg/mL. El análisis estadístico incluyó las pruebas de Kruskal-Wallis y ANOVA, con el post hoc de Tukey (p < 0,05; IC 95%). Los resultados mostraron que el extracto pre...

Objective: The aim of this study was to determine the association between anthropometric parameters and the prevalence of dental caries and its clinical consequences among children from the Señor de los Milagros preschool in Santa Anita, Lima. Materials and Methods: In this analytical cross-sectional study, 100 children from 5 to 6 years of age were examined. Dental caries was registered with the WHO’s criteria, clinical consequences of untreated dental caries were assessed with the pufa index and anthropometric indexes (weight for age, height for age and BMI for age) were measured using WHO’s AnthroPlus software. The association between dmf-t index and BMI was then analyzed; the data was processed by Chi-square test. Results: A high prevalence of dental caries (73%) and its clinical consequences (33%) was found in this preschool population. An increment in the pufa index was detect...

Objective. To determine the relationship between the presence of peritraumatic distress associated with the COVID-19 pandemic and demographic characteristics in dentists from Lima and Callao - Peru in 2021. Materials and methods. Cross-sectional study of 236 participants who responded to a virtual survey between June and November 2021. The social characteristics of the dentists were recorded and a translated, adapted and validated version of the COVID-19 Peritraumatic Distress Index (CPDI) questionnaire was used. For bivariate analysis, the chi-square test was used. Results. The mean peritraumatic distress score was 25.46 (±12.401). Almost 59.7 % of the participants were free of distress, while 38.1% experienced mild to moderate symptoms and 2.1 % had severe distress. Women experienced a significantly higher level of psychological distress than men (p < 0.003) and a statistically sig...