2017, Number 1
Real and perceived need for dental prosthesis in patients older than 15 years
Language: Spanish
References: 16
Page: 44-55
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ABSTRACT
Introduction: prosthetic rehabilitation extends beyond the individual tooth or the single area without teeth, which includes restoring the normality of the relations of muscles and teeth, as well as the proper oral health, substituting the teeth absent by artificial means and achieving the masticatory, aesthetics and phonetics function.Objective: to identify the real need for stomatology prosthesis in patients older than 15 years of "René Vallejo Ortiz" University Polyclinic III.
Method: a cross-sectional descriptive study was done. Of a total of 19.760 individuals, 500 of them were randomly selected, representing the sample. The oral examination was performed considering the informed consent of all patients.
Results: the female sex represented 60% and the group of 35-59 years 45%; 56% of the patients needed treatment, partial dentures were the most needed with 62.5%, the female sex showed a real need of 64.3% and the felt need for the prosthesis represented 51.8%, higher in the female sex with 68.9% and in the age group between 35-59 (56.7%).
Conclusions: more than half of the population required partial-type prosthetic treatment, the real and felt need for treatment was more evident in the female sex and in the age group between 35-59.
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