ASSESSMENT OF MOUTH HYGIENE HABITS AND THE SATISFACTION OF REMOVABLE PARTIAL DENTURE

Authors

  • Dianarise Graciete Mendonça Tavares
  • Lídia Audrey Rocha Valadas Marques
  • Edilson Martins Rodrigues Neto Universidade Federal do Ceará http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1228-2669
  • Paulo Goberlânio de Barros Silva
  • Ana Cristina de Mello Fiallos

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17765/1983-1870.2016v9n2p317-323

Keywords:

Removable partial prosthesis, Mouth hygiene, Patient´s satisfaction

Abstract

Removable partial denture with clasps (RPDC) restores partially toothless areas, coupled to the chewing, aesthetic and phonetic functions. In spite of progress in dentistry during the last decades, several studies indicate that mouth hygiene of RPDC patients is rather low. Current analysis verifies the hygiene of dentures and mouth cavity and the satisfaction level of patients with RPDC attended by the dentistry school of the Universidade Federal do Ceará, Brazil. Methods: The descriptive and quantitative study comprised a questionnaire to 31 RPDC users. Data were analyzed by ?2 test and expressed in absolute frequency at 95% confidence level. Most subjects (77.4%) were female, aged between 40 and 60 years (64.5%), with complete college. They had received hygiene directions after the installation of the denture (96.8%). The hygiene method most employed was mechanical brushing with dentifrice, three or more times a day, for 71.0% of the interviewed. Caries was the main etiological factor in teeth loss with a significant difference related to the satisfaction degree of patients with the prosthesis. Most subjects were highly satisfied with the treatment even though there were flaws in the execution of mouth and denture hygiene.

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Author Biography

Edilson Martins Rodrigues Neto, Universidade Federal do Ceará

Farmacêutico pela Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC), Doutorando em Farmacologia Clínica pela UFC, Mestre em Farmacologia Clínica pela UFC, Especialista em Farmacologia Clínica pelo Instituto Ateneu, Especialista em Toxicologia Geral pela Universidade Cândido Mendes(UCAM), Especializando em Gestão da Assistência Farmacêutica pela Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Especializando em Biomedicina Estética pela UCAM; Professor dos cursos de Farmácia e Psicologia da Faculdade Católica Rainha do Sertão, Diretor Suplente do Sindicato dos Farmacêuticos do Estado do Ceará e Membro do Centro de de Estudos em Toxicologia no Departamento de Farmácia da UFC; atuando também como revisor dos periódicos Saúde e Pesquisa, do Centro Universitário Cesumar; Saúde (Santa Maria), da Universidade Federal de Santa Maria e Electronic Journal of Pharmacy, da Universidade Federal de Goiás

Published

2016-10-07

How to Cite

Tavares, D. G. M., Marques, L. A. R. V., Rodrigues Neto, E. M., Silva, P. G. de B., & Fiallos, A. C. de M. (2016). ASSESSMENT OF MOUTH HYGIENE HABITS AND THE SATISFACTION OF REMOVABLE PARTIAL DENTURE. Saúde E Pesquisa, 9(2), 317–323. https://doi.org/10.17765/1983-1870.2016v9n2p317-323

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