Relationship between risk classifications used to organize the demand for oral health in a small city of São Paulo, Brazil

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"Oral health teams can work with both information of the people related to the family context as individual epidemiological through risk ratings, considering equity and service orga - nization. The purpose of our study was to evaluate the association between tools that classify individ - ual and family risk. The study group consisted of students from the age group of 5-6 years and 11-12 years who were classified regarding risk of caries and whether their parents had periodontal disease, in addition to the family risk. There was an association between the risk rating for decay in children (n = 128) and family risk classifica - tion with Coef C = 0.338 and p = 0.01, indicating that the higher the family’s risk, the higher the risk of caries. Similarly, the association between the risk classification for periodontal disease in par - ents and family risk classification with Coef C = 0.5503 and p = 0.03 indicated that the higher the family risk, the higher the risk of periodontal dis - ease. It can be concluded that the use of family risk rating tool is indicated as a possibility of ordering actions of the dental service, organizing their de - mand with greater equity, in this access door."