Foundation:

Total older toothless adult patients with large bone atrophies; have affected chewing, phonation, swallowing, psyche and therefore their quality of life. For them there is an alternative treatment, oral implantology.

Objective:

to describe the results on the quality of life of elderly patients of the total implant-supported prosthesis treatment with immediate load.

Methods:

descriptive cross-sectional research conducted in the implantology office of the Havana Faculty of Dentistry, on 41 patients who, after two months of rehabilitation with implant-supported total prosthesis with immediate loading, the quality of life questionnaire was applied related to oral health (OHIP-14). It was considered as no impact or negative impact when there was no improvement and positive impact or impact when there was improvement of the quality of life.

Results:

the dimensions with the greatest negative impact were: physical pain (48.8%), physical disability (51.2%), psychological distress (73.2%) and positive impact were: functional limitation, social, psychological disability and the disability, with 95.1%; 92.7% and 100% respectively.

Conclusions:

the implant-supported total dental prosthesis treatment improves the quality of life of elderly patients.

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