Carlo Eduardo Medina-Solís

Autonomous University of Hidalgo | UAEH · Academic Area of Dentistry

The aims of the present study were to identify the prevalence and risk indicators of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) in urban-based Mexican adults seeking care in a university-based triage/intake dental clinic, and to develop a predictive model. A cross-sectional study was conducted on 3354 medical/dental records of adults who sought care at the tr...

RESUMEN Las enfermedades bucales afectan a una gran proporción de la población alrededor del mundo produciendo gastos en salud para su atención y provocando efectos negativos en la calidad de vida de las personas. Con el objetivo de revisar la evidencia disponible sobre la relación existente entre la posición socioeconómica y la frecuencia de cepil...

The objective of the present study was to compare the prevalence of edentulism in Mexican adults with and without a diagnosis of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) when they are seeking dental care. A cross-sectional study was conducted on 1921 medical records of Mexican adults 40 years of age and older who sought dental care at clinics of a public un...

Background: Prefabricated metal crowns (PMCs) have been widely used in pediatric dentistry due to their great success in various clinical situations. However, it is important to know the local effects, such as changes in pH in the oral environment. Objective: To evaluate the pH variations before and after placement of PMCs. Methods: A quasi-ex...

Background: Adverse effects can occur during orthodontic treatment. Objective: To evaluate the relationship between prevalence and severity of enamel demineralization using a laser-fluorescence device, with length of orthodontic treatment time. Method: A cross-sectional study was conducted in 60 patients in a university orthodontic clinic. A c...

The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of dental trauma in schoolchildren 6 to 12 years of age and associated clinical, sociodemographic, and socioeconomic variables. A cross-sectional study was conducted in 477 children from public elementary schools in four locations in Mexico. The dependent variable was dental trauma, which was di...

Background To determine whether tobacco, alcohol consumption and other risk factors are associated with self-reported tooth loss. Methods A cross-sectional study of a community-based sample of 8,467 college students was carried out in Mexico. Data were collected using questionnaires. The dependent variable was self-reported tooth loss, and any num...

Periodic toothbrushing is the most common, effective, and reliable way to mechanically remove biofilm from oral tissues. The objective of the present study was to determine the association between toothbrushing frequency and socioeconomic position for schoolchildren between 6 and 12 years of age in four cities in Mexico. A cross-sectional study was...

Objective To describe trends in cases and prevalence at birth rates of cleft lip and/or palate (CL/P) in Mexico between 2003 and 2019. Design Ecological study. Setting Multiple data sources systematically collected into a national epidemiological surveillance data warehouse. Participants National Live Birth Information System. Main Outcome Meas...

Objective: To assess the experience, prevalence, need for treatment and economic impact of caries among students 6-12 years old in four cities in Mexico. Basic research design: Cross-sectional clinical study. Setting: Elementary public schools. Participants: 500 schoolchildren aged 6 to 12 years. Method: Oral clinical examinations using WH...

Pamabrom is a diuretic that is effective in treating premenstrual syndrome and primary dysmenorrhea. The aim of this study was to examine the effect of metformin and modulators of the opioid receptor-nitric oxide (NO)–cyclic GMP–K+ channels pathway on the local antinociception induced by pamabrom. The rat paw 1% formalin test was used to assess the...

The objective of the present study was to scrutinize the effect of nitric oxide (NO), cGMP, potassium channel blockers and metformin on the citral-produced peripheral antinociception. The rat paw 1% formalin test was used to assess nociception and antinociception. Rats were treated with local peripheral administration of citral (10-100 µg/paw). The...

Total edentulism is the loss of all teeth for any cause by a multifactorial process that involves biological and patient-related factors. Studies on edentulism and risk factors in Mexico are limited, and the epidemiological surveillance data is scarce and controversial since official governmental reports are not statistically representative of the...

Total edentulism is the loss of all teeth for any cause by a multifactorial process that involves biological and patient-related factors. Studies on edentulism and risk factors in Mexico are limited, and the epidemiological surveillance data is scarce and controversial since official governmental reports are not statistically representative of the...

Objetivo: Analizar la experiencia y prevalencia de pérdida prematura de dientes primarios (PPDP) en pacientes de 2 a 10 años de edad que acuden a un servicio de odontopediatría. Material y Métodos: Se realizó un estudio transversal en pacientes de un hospital público de la ciudad de Pachuca, México. Se revisaron 350 historias clínicas, y después de...

La erupción de los dientes permanentes representa una serie compleja de eventos, en su mayoría de base genética, en los que los movimientos eruptivos del germen dentario que tienen lugar en un momento y una ruta predeterminados permiten que el diente encuentre su antagonista en un plano oclusal predeterminado. Cuando hay una ausencia clínica de uno...

Introducción: La mineralización de los dientes evoluciona con una secuencia invariable que va desde las puntas de las cúspides hasta el cierre apical. En el tercer molar se realiza todo este proceso entre los 8 a los 20 años, y hace su erupción alrededor de los 17-21 años. Este órgano dental (OD) suele no erupcionar por el insuficiente espacio post...

Introducción: La trisomía 12 p es una rara anormalidad cromosómica con una incidencia estimada de 1/ 50 000. Desde su primera descripción por Uchida y Lin (1973), se han descrito solo alrededor de 40 pacientes. Este trastorno es producto principalmente de un error en la segregación de un cromosoma parental asociado a una translocación, duplicación...

Introducción: Uno de los retos más desafiantes en la endodoncia moderna es el correcto manejo de los conductos curvos y estrechos los cuales por el grado de dificultad que presentan pueden llevar al clínico a cometer errores operatorios como transportaciones del foramen, perforaciones en el ápice radicular y separación de instrumentos. Presentación...

Background and Objectives: Orthodontic tooth movement is associated with inflammatory responses. The aim of this study was to identify gingival microcirculation using laser Doppler flowmetry in patients with orthodontic treatment. Materials and Methods: A longitudinal pilot study was performed. The participants were selected using a non-probability...

The rapid spread of COVID-19 renewed the focus on how health systems across the globe are financed, especially during public health emergencies. Development assistance is an important source of health financing in many low-income countries, yet little is known about how much of this funding was disbursed for COVID-19. We aimed to put development as...

Background Sustainable Development Goal 3.2 has targeted elimination of preventable child mortality, reduction of neonatal death to less than 12 per 1000 livebirths, and reduction of death of children younger than 5 years to less than 25 per 1000 livebirths, for each country by 2030. To understand current rates, recent trends, and potential traject...

BACKGROUND: The Mexican serviceberry, Malacomeles denticulata, have been used as a successful oral therapy by Mexican communities without enough scientific support. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the M. denticulata extracts with selective antibacterial properties over dental biofilm bacteria. METHODS: Fruit, Leaf, and Stem of M. denticulata extracts were e...

Objetivo: Analizar la correlación de las tasas de contagios, mortalidad y letalidad del COVID-19 con diferentes indicadores económicos y de salud a nivel ecológico. Material y Métodos: Un estudio ecológico se realizó con datos provenientes de diversas fuentes. En total fueron incluidos 150 países que al 12 de Julio de 2020 tenían al menos 500 conta...

Background: Chewing tobacco and other types of smokeless tobacco use have had less attention from the global health community than smoked tobacco use. However, the practice is popular in many parts of the world and has been linked to several adverse health outcomes. Understanding trends in prevalence with age, over time, and by location and sex is...

Background Ending the global tobacco epidemic is a defining challenge in global health. Timely and comprehensive estimates of the prevalence of smoking tobacco use and attributable disease burden are needed to guide tobacco control efforts nationally and globally. Methods We estimated the prevalence of smoking tobacco use and attributable disease...

The aim of this study was to identify if the prevalence of dental pain (past and / or present) is associated with caries experience in Mexican children, as well as to characterize factors associated with dental pain. A cross-sectional study was conducted in a consecutive sample of 309 children 2 to 12 years old who were patients at a dental school...

Objectives: To evaluate the effectiveness of two pit and fissure sealants (PFS) in reducing the incidence of dental caries in schoolchildren. Material and methods: A randomized split-mouth experimental design was used in a sample of 140 subjects assigned to two groups. The sealants used were Clinpro©3M and BeautiSealant©Shofu placed in first per...

The objective of the present research was to quantify the association between dental caries self-report and socioeconomic indicators in Mexican children. An ecological study included a self-report of dental caries in schoolchildren enrolled in public elementary and middle schools derived from the National School Health Survey. A total of 73,560 sch...

Objective: To determine the association of edentulism with different chronic diseases and mental disorders in Mexicans aged 60 years and over. Material and methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out using data from the World Health Survey for Mexico, in a probabilistic, multi-stage cluster sampling framework. Data for self-report of chroni...

Objetivo: Evaluar los cambios en los arcos dentarios posterior al tratamiento de ortodoncia con extracciones de los cuatro primeros premolares. Material y Métodos: Se realizó un estudio transversal con una muestra de modelos de estudio de 21 pacientes con dentición permanente que fueron atendidos en la Clínica de la Especialidad de Ortodoncia de la...

Objective: To determine the association of edentulism with different chronic diseases in Mexicans aged 60 years and over. Material and Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out using data from the World Health Survey for Mexico, which had a probabilistic, multi-stage and cluster sampling. The results of the self-report of chronic diseases (d...

The objective of the present study was to characterize socioeconomic inequalities in the patterns of professionally applied topical fluoride (PATF) in Mexican schoolchildren. A cross-sectional study was carried out on 3029 Mexican schoolchildren. A questionnaire was administered to caregivers to determine sociodemographic, socioeconomic, and behavi...

Objective: To describe the experience and prevalence of dental caries in schoolchildren aged 6-12 years belonging to agricultural manual worker households. Material and methods: A comparative cross-sectional study was conducted in two groups of schoolchildren: One considered "children of agricultural worker migrant parents" (n = 157) and the oth...

Introduction: Preterm delivery is a multifactorial health problem that represents a serious public health problem around the world. In recent years, there has been an increase in scientific evidence suggesting associations between oral health status (mainly periodontal disease and tooth loss) and an increased risk of systemic diseases and various a...

Background: Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) remains a public health priority in Latin America. While the burden of HIV is historically concentrated in urban areas and high-risk groups, subnational estimates that cover multiple countries and years are missing. This paucity is partially due to incomplete vital registration (VR) systems and statis...

En la actualidad las necesidades de la sociedad se vuelven más complejas, por lo que los profesionales de la salud bucodental deben cumplir con funciones sustantivas de pertinencia y calidad, deben buscar impulsar la investigación y la transferencia de la tecnología para vincularse con sus pares nacionales e internacionales, así como con la socieda...

Researchers have reported false positive/negative results of the cold test in the diagnosis of pulpitis. Knowledge of the correlation between results of the cold test and proteins could aid in decreasing the frequency of incorrect diagnosis. To associate the levels of matrix metalloproteinase-8 (MMP-8) with the responses (in seconds) to the cold te...

The metal alloys used in dentistry are made mainly of nickel (Ni), titanium (Ti), and other elements such as molybdenum (Mo), zirconium (Zr), iron (Fe), tin (Sn), chrome (Cr), carbon (C), copper (Cu) and niobium (Nb) which can release metal ions in unstable environments. The aim of this work was determine the salivary pH before and during orthodont...

Objective To identify the factors associated with the prevalence of dental pain in Mexican adolescents and young adults. Material and methods This is a cross‐sectional study in which data from 638 Mexican subjects, 16–25 years of age, who were randomly selected from college applicants, were analysed. Questionnaires were administered to collect soc...

Aim: Root canal treatment serves to prevent or cure periapical periodontitis. The aim of our study was to evaluate the remission of periapical lesions radiographically in patients who had undergone root canal treatment. Materials and Methods: We conducted an observational, longitudinal study of patients in the endodontics clinic of the Autonomous U...

Background Achieving universal health coverage (UHC) involves all people receiving the health services they need, of high quality, without experiencing financial hardship. Making progress towards UHC is a policy priority for both countries and global institutions, as highlighted by the agenda of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and WHO's...

The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2019 provides a rules-based synthesis of the available evidence on levels and trends in health outcomes, a diverse set of risk factors, and health system responses. GBD 2019 covered 204 countries and territories, as well as first administrative level disaggregations for 22 countr...

The objective of the study was to characterize self-reported oral hygiene practices among Mexican older adults aged ≥60 years, and to measure the association between frequency of tooth brushing and a set of sociodemographic, socioeconomic, and dental variables.We conducted a cross-sectional study of 139 older adults aged ≥60 years in Pachuca, Mexic...

Figuras suplementarias: Estudio ecológico COVID-19 en el Mundo

Objetivo: Analizar la correlación de las tasas de contagios, mortalidad y letalidad del COVID-19 con diferentes indicadores económicos y de salud a nivel ecológico. Material y Métodos: Un estudio ecológico se realizó con datos provenientes de diversas fuentes. En total fueron incluidos 150 países que al 12 de Julio de 2020 tenían al menos 500 conta...

Introducción: A finales de 2019 se reportaron en China los primeros casos del brote de la nueva enfermedad de coronavirus-2019 (COVID-19) causada por el coronavirus de tipo 2, que ocasiona el síndrome respiratorio agudo grave (SARS-CoV-2). Objetivo: El objetivo de este estudio fue calcular y analizar las tasas de contagios, mortalidad y letalidad d...

An ecological study was carried out using aggregated data from various sources. 150 countries that as of July 12, 2020, had at least 500 COVID-19 infections were included. The variables considered as dependent were the rates of infection, mortality and lethality of the COVID-19, while the independent variables were: the gross domestic product (GDP)...

Introducción: La caries dental es la principal enfermedad bucal en escolares y se le considera como un problema de salud pública. Objetivo: Determinar la experiencia y prevalencia de caries dental y los factores asociados en escolares mexicanos de 6 a 12 años. Material y Métodos: Se realizó estudio transversal, en escuelas primarias públicas de las...

Introducción: Los traumatismos dentales (TD) son las lesiones traumáticas de los órganos dentales, hueso alveolar y mucosa gingival; actualmente se les consideran un problema de salud pública. La prevalencia de los TD alrededor del mundo van desde 10.2 hasta 69.2%. Objetivo: Determinar la prevalencia de traumatismos dentales y sus indicadores de ri...

Objective: To identify the prevalence of and factors associated with the use of dental health services to receive professionally applied topical fluoride (DHSU-PATF) in the 12 months prior to the study among Mexican schoolchildren aged 6 to 12 years. Methods: A cross-sectional study was performed in 1,404 schoolchildren selected randomly from 15...

Introducción: Los dientes retenidos son aquellos que se encuentran parcial o totalmente desarrollados y alojados en el interior de los maxilares. Diferentes estudios mencionan, que los caninos, después de los terceros molares, muestran mayor prevalencia en presentar retención. Justificación: Se considera al canino como un órgano dental importante p...

Introducción: Durante la formación del esmalte o amelogénesis pueden ocurrir alteraciones que se identificarán como defectos de esmalte (DDE). Estos son ampliamente observados la población infantil, tanto en la erupción temporaria como en la permanente, desde los 6 meses hasta los 12 años. Son de etiología múltiple. Metodología: La consulta electró...

RESUMEN La trombocitopenia se define como una disminución del número absoluto de plaquetas en la sangre periférica. El rango de plaquetas por microlitro de sangre normal oscila entre 150,000-450,000 plaquetas. Sin embargo, se ha reportado en la literatura que un conteo plaquetario de hasta 100,000 se puede considerar como normal. Por lo cual se def...

The aim of this study was to explore the remineralizing effect of toothpastes based on Xilitol, Camellia Sinensis and Juniperus Communis. An in vitro experimental study was carried out in an 18 human premolars sample, which were treated with one of the 3 evaluated toothpastes and a control fluoride one. The atomic percentages of Ca and P were evalu...

Background The objective of this study was to compare the experience and distribution of tooth loss in people with and without diabetes. Methods The authors conducted a comparative cross-sectional study of patients at a public university. Analysis included medical records of those treated from 2013 through 2017. The dependent and main independent...

To determine the treatment needs and the care index for dental caries in the primary dentition and permanent dentition of schoolchildren and to quantify the cost of care that would represent the treatment of dental caries in Mexico.A secondary analysis of data from the First National Caries Survey was conducted, which was a cross-sectional study co...

To analyze whether a correlation exists between the caries status (Decayed, Missing and Filled Teeth, DMFT Index) of the first permanent molars (FPMs) and that of the full permanent dentition of Mexican adolescents, and to propose its use in large epidemiological studies of dental caries. We conducted a cross-sectional study of 1538 adolescents fro...

Objective: To determine the treatment needs and the care index for dental caries in the primary dentition and permanent dentition of schoolchildren and to quantify the cost of care that would represent the treatment of dental caries in Mexico. Materials and Methods: A secondary analysis of the data derived from the First National Caries Survey was...

Objetivo: Determinar la experiencia y prevalencia de dientes perdidos en una muestra de adolescentes y adultos jóvenes universitarios mexicanos. Material y métodos: Se realizó un estudio transversal donde se incluyeron 638 sujetos mexicanos de 16 a 25 años de edad seleccionados aleatoriamente de candidatos a ingresar a una universidad pública. Se a...

RESUMEN La leche materna es el alimento que provee al niño desde su nacimiento de todos los nutrientes que necesita para su crecimiento y desarrollo físico y psicológico. Su efecto sobre el tejido dental ha sido objeto de controversias, ya que se ha visto que actúa sobre la mineralización del esmalte y se ha asociado a caries de la infancia tempra...

Objective The present study aimed to identify preventive and curative dental health service utilisation (DHSU) in the context of associated clinical and non-clinical factors among adolescents and young adults in Mexico. Design Cross-sectional study. Setting Applicants to a public university in Mexico. Participants Participants were 638 adolescen...

Abstract The aim of the present study was to identify the relationship between the expression of calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) and the responses of pulp sensitivity tests in healthy pulps and irreversible pulps by performing a cross-sectional study on patients. Two hundred subjects were evaluated. A total of 75 subjects complied with the c...

Background: Type-2-Diabetes (T2D) and Periodontitis are major inflammatory diseases. However, not much is known about the specific subgingival microbiota in Mexicans with diabetes and metabolic dysbiosis. The aim of this study was to describe the subgingival microbiota of Mexicans with T2D and the different periodontal and metabolic conditions, th...