Abstract

BAUZA BOTEY, Xiomara; PARRA ENRIQUEZ, Sandra; CRESPO CUENCA, Lisbeth  and  AGUILERA OCHOA, Fulgencia de las Mercedes. Odontology elders’ attention in Holguín, Cuba, from 2011 to 2015. ccm [online]. 2018, vol.22, n.2, pp. 275-286. ISSN 1560-4381.

Introduction: since 1948, the United Nations Organization (UNO) has been especially concerned on humankind aging. That´s how the need for protecting elderly people´s wellbeing, regarding high risk of buccal-dental diseases, emerged.   Objective: characterize elders’ dentistry attention within the five-year period, from 2011 to 2015, in Holguín province.  Methods: a retrospective, descriptive and observational study was carried out on 60 years old and older patients’ universe, which was assisted from January 2011 to December 2015, in Holguín province. Data was obtained at the Provincial Statistical Registration.   Results: during this period, 477 907 Primary Dentistry Attention patients were examined, and 377 276 didn't require treatment. Holguín and Rafael Freyre showed higher numbers, with 25 032 discharges after attention, and 58 801 after prosthetic rehabilitation.  Conclusions: a gradually increased amount of elderly patients discharged from Primary Attention, examined at 2015 in Holguín and Rafael Freyre municipalities. There is still a growing number of concluded patient’s prosthetic rehabilitation every year.

Keywords : dentistry attention; elderly people; rehabilitation.

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