Introduction:

gender analysis is essential to determine inequities related to the health of men and women, is a field to be explored in Stomatology and more when it comes to the effectiveness of ozone therapy in the treatment of stomatitis subprosthesis.

Objective:

to evaluate how gender influences the effectiveness of ozone therapy in the treatment of subprosthesis stomatitis in patients who attended the Prosthetics service of the Clinic "Julio Antonio Mella" in the period January-June 2018.

Method:

a descriptive-transversal study was carried out. The universe was constituted by the patients with prosthesis who came to the service in that period and the sample was selected in a non-probabilistic way. The information was obtained through an observation guide and a questionnaire, which was processed with the statistical package SPSS, version 15.

Results:

treatment was more effective in men and days to cure inferior in these. Women who took more than ten days to heal the injury or who did not heal constitute the highest percentage with respect to men, mainly due to their domestic responsibilities.

Conclusions:

gender influences the effectiveness of ozone therapy marked by differences in domestic responsibilities that interfere in adherence to treatment by men and women.

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