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Revista Archivo Médico de Camagüey
On-line version ISSN 1025-0255
Abstract
HIDALGO HIDALGO, Siomara and RAMOS DIAZ, Melania J. Prosthetic rehabilitation in the elderly. AMC [online]. 2001, vol.5, n.4. ISSN 1025-0255.
A descriptive, cross- sectional study of 33 patients of both sexes,older than 60 years , total and partial endentulous coming from the health areas of the North Policlinic was carried out.They were assisted in the teaching dental clinic of La Vigiaremitted from primary care assitance and treated in the Prothesis Department with the aim of collecting in a survey data observed in hard and soft tissues of the mouth trough clinical exam, taking into account the reabsorption grade of residual borders, the time of using the prothesis and the anterior prosthetic experience. Masculine sex, lower alveolar borders reabsorbed in total endotelous, as well as gingival recession and abrupted, extruded tecth in partrial endotelous prevailed in the study.
Keywords : DENTAL CARE FOR AGED; DENTAL IMPLANTATION; DENTAL PROSTHESIS; MOUTH REHABILITATION.