Abstract

ESTRADA PEREIRA, Gladys Aída; MARQUEZ FILIU, Maricel  and  AGUERO DESPAIGNE, Liliet Antonia. Clinical diagnosis of patients with subprosthesis stomatitis bearers of prosthetic aparatology. MEDISAN [online]. 2017, vol.21, n.11, pp. 3180-3187. ISSN 1029-3019.

A descriptive and cross-sectional study of 75 patients with stomatitis subprosthesis of the hard palate mucus bearers of removable prosthetic aparatology, assisted in the stomatological service of the Specialties Polyclinic in "Saturnino Lora Torres" Teaching Clinical Surgical Provincial Hospital from Santiago de Cuba, was carried out from November, 2014 to the same month in 2015, in order to characterized them from the clinical point of view. In the case material there was a prevalence of the female sex, the 60 years and over age group, as well as the absence of symptomatology. Grade I estomatitis was the most frequent; while loosened prosthesis, the time of continuous use and the habit of not removing away the prosthesis were the main predisposing factors in the emergence of this disease. Reason why it is important to carry out educational actions that allow to diminish the presence of this disorder

Keywords : subprosthesis stomatitis; prosthetics aparatology; dental prosthesis; loosened prosthesis; continuous use of dental prosthesis; secondary health care.

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