Application of the Community Oral Health Indicator by Non-Dental Personnel and Its Contribution to Oral Healthcare

摘要: Objective To validate the Community Oral Health Indicator-COHI by non-dental personnel. Methods Risk assessment is an essential component in decision-making process. Therefore, COHI, instrument to evaluate population oral health situation a simple manner, was created. Agents (CHA) were trained use COHI (variables as number of teeth, presence cavities, residual dental roots, lesions, etc.), while dentists for and DMFT. 60 individuals examined, CHA DS, with these indicators order personnel. Results Dental soft tissues problems well spread among those individuals. People without tissue damage, and/or need prostheses found sample, proving it be heterogeneous evaluated factors representing real population. The results examinations performed using DMF-T/dmf-t presented strong agreement when comparing two instruments. When DMFT compared, showed concordance 0.86 present 0.85 roots. Likewise, analyzing data DS high level, specificity sensitivity found. Conclusion The has shown useful detecting health. may used, after training, personnel, contributing planning organization community assistance.