Background:

Dentures are an esthetic and functional solution to tooth loss and contribute to life quality of those who wear them, but the stomatognathic system is exposed to lesions when guidelines for their use, care and hygiene are not followed.

Objective:

To assess the effectiveness of an educational program to improve oral health in patients with partial dentures.

Methodology:

A measurement pre-experiment study was conducted before and after community intervention without any control group, from September 2019 to February 2020. 50 patients over 19 years of age wearing partial denture who met the inclusion criteria were selected. Survey, observation, specialist criteria and experiment were used as empirical and statistical-mathematical methods to measure variables: knowledge level, oral brushing efficiency and dentures hygiene.

Results:

At the end of the application of the educational program, a change was observed from 6 % to 52 % in the good knowledge level on wear and care of prosthetic appliances, in brushing efficiency from 30 % to 82 % and from 8 % to 68 % in prostheses good hygiene.

Conclusions:

The educational program was assessed as effective in obtaining satisfactory results in terms of modification of oral health knowledge and practices in patients with dentures.

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