Prosthetics rehabilitation in geriatric patients

Abstract

Introduction:
Dental care in the third age is very important. Prosthetics rehabilitation constitutes an alternative, although it can cause lesions or damages in oral tissues.
Objectives:
To describe the behavior of prosthetics rehabilitation in geriatric patients with dental prosthesis.
Methods:
A descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out from September, 2019 to March, 2020. The studied universe was formed by 92 elderly adults. The studied variables were age, sex, oral dental disorders, risk factors, biomechanical principles and need of prostheses. The information was collected by an interview, the clinical examination and a questionnaire. The statistical analysis was performed by software for Windows, SPSS-15.0.
Resuls:
The 75 % of the patients were 60 and 74 years old, the 71.26 % were women and the 28,26%, men. Dental loss affected the 100 % of the examined patients. Deficient oral hygiene and the continuous use of prostheses was found in the 94.57 %, this coincided with the patients with prostheses who fulfilled with the biomechanical principles. The 56.52 % needed prosthetic treatment.
Conclusions:
Patients between 60 to 74 years old are the most affected in the oral dental difficulty, women prevail with dental loss. Deficient oral hygiene and the continuous use of prostheses are the most frequent risk factors. Most of the patients have prostheses which do not fulfill with the biomechanical principles. More than the half of the examined elderly adults need prostheses