Introduction:

oral diseases resulting from the wear of dental prostheses in older adults continue to be a highly prevalent public health problem. With the use of artificial dentures, risk factors can appear that condition oral diseases. The frequency of these conditions in this age group encouraged the present study.

Objective:

to establish the behavior of oral diseases and risk factors present in older adults who wear dental prostheses.

Methods:

a descriptive, retrospective, cross-sectional study was carried out in the period 2018-2020. Target group: 3884 patients with dental prostheses, 60 years or older, belonging to Antonio Briones Montoto dentistry clinic in Pinar del Rio. Sample: 250 patients chosen by simple random sampling. Descriptive statistics was applied by means of absolute and relative frequencies.

Results:

female patients predominated (54 %) and the age group 80-84 reaching a 38,8 %. The most frequent lesions were subprosthetic stomatitis (40,4%) and traumatic ulcer (22,9 %) in total prosthesis wearers. Smoking, poor oral hygiene and dentobacterial plaque had an impact on the occurrence of these conditions.

Conclusions:

the oral diseases resulting from the wear of dental prostheses and the risk factors present in older adults were associated with poor lifestyles such as inadequate oral hygiene, the absence of preventive measures, the poor quality of the prosthetic appliance and the need to make and reinstall new dental prostheses.

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