METHOD FOR PREDICTION OF RECURRENT CARIES IN PREGNANT WOMEN Russian patent published in 2014 - IPC A61B10/00 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: invention refers to medicine, particularly to dentistry, and can be used to predict recurrent caries in pregnant women. The previous medical history of the pregnant woman in the first trimester of pregnancy is studied, and her oral cavity is examined. The previous medical history is used to determine: the number of pregnancies (NP) including the present one, the order number (ON) of the forthcoming delivery, pregnancy complications factor (PCF) which is assigned with a value of 1 if the patient has one or more complications of the present pregnancy, while the absence of complications enables assigning the value of 0. The oral cavity examination findings are used to determine the caries intensity - CFE. CFE=C+F+E, wherein C is the number of carious - uncured teeth at the moment of examination, F is the number of filled - cured teeth at the moment of examination, E is the number of extracted or to be extracted teeth. That is followed by calculating a prediction coefficient (PC) by formula: PC=-0.5+0.031×NP+0.127×ON+0.177×PCF+0.066×CFE. Providing the condition K≥0.7, recurrent caries is predicted.

EFFECT: method enables the reliable prediction.

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