[Systemic disease in the Pediatric Dental Department during 1984].

To adequately organize the assistance services of the Departamento de Estomatología of the Hospital Infantile de México, it was selected at random a group of 260 patients, that attended for medical stomatological attention, to determine which was the systemic disease and the oral problem that were more frequent. This longitudinal study was realized in an age group that covered infants and adolescents (1 to 20 years). The largest group was children between 4 and 6 years (45 to 8 = 119), the sex distribution was boys 25% and girls 20.8%. It was observed that the most frequent was the hereditary anomalies (74 cases), followed by respiratory disease (58 cases) and the same for nervous system disease.