RESULTS OF PREVENTIVE DENTAL EXAMINATIONS OF THE POPULATION OF THE KYRGYZ REPUBLIC

Abstract

In dentistry, as well as in other branches of medicine, most diseases are easier to prevent than to deal with their treatment and rehabilitation. Despite the ongoing efforts in the Kyrgyz Republic to organize the treatment and prevention of dental caries and its complications, there is a decrease in the quality of dental care, its availability, and the volume of preventive work, primarily due to the increase in the volume of medical work and the closure of school dental offices. The number of complications and permanent teeth extraction, as well as odontogenic inflammatory diseases increases. The article presents data on the conduct and results of planned preventive dental examinations among the population of the Kyrgyz Republic and its districts. Standard indicators of planned dental examinations coverage of the decreed population in the Republic as a whole for the period from 2008 to 2018 are quite low (on average, 13.0%), only one in eight residents is examined by dentists as part of a planned preventive examination. In different regions of the Republic, the indicator may differ by 1.5-2 times, so in the capital, the city of Bishkek (12.0%), it is almost the same as the national one, and in Osh (25%) and Osh region (20%) it is higher. This fact is explained by the ongoing reforms in the national health system and the attitude of the population to state medical organizations. In the course of routine inspections to identify the individuals in need of sanation of oral cavity, on average, 59.0% of the population has diseases that require dental care. Of them, 67.0% receive this assistance in a timely manner. At the same time, the indicators of those in need of rehabilitation and those who received it differ in different territories of the Republic.