Denture Repairs: oral health and prosthodontics state the applicants'

Authors

  • Pedro Rafael Casado Méndez Hospital Provincial Clínico-Quirúrgico Docente "Celia Sánchez Manduley"
  • Raiza Arias Tardón
  • Pedro Rafael Casado Méndez
  • Rafael Salvador Santos Fonseca
  • Onelia Méndez Jiménez
  • Magdalena Remón Elías

Keywords:

estado prostodóncico, prótesis estomatológica, estomatitis subprótesis, salud bucal,

Abstract

Background: the requesting denture repairs doesn't constitute an urgency in stomatology but this originates an opportunity of revision of the buccal cavity.
Objective: to establish the health buccal aspects and the prosthodontics state of the patient applicants of some type of denture repairs.
Methods: a quantitative, longitudinal and descriptive study of cases series in 482 patients requesting some type of denture repairs in specialized consults, in the Manuel Sánchez Municipal Stomatolgical Clinic, Manzanillo, Granma, in the first semester of the year 2016.
Results: the 56,85 % of the patients that requested some type of denture repairs, was of the female sex. The age stocking was of 63,27 years in a 28-86 year-old range. The application of denture repairs was bigger in total denture (55,81 %) superiors (53,94 %) being the complete fractures (38,59 %) the main application reason. The revisions of the buccal cavity were diminishing with the time of use of the denture. The risk factor of more referred was the frequency and incorrect methods of buccal hygiene (83,2 %) while the denture stomatitis was the verified buccal lesion (21,16 %).
Conclusions: the applications of denture repairs owe you, in their majority, to complete fractures and these they are made by patients that have a frequency and incorrect methods of buccal hygiene what determined that the denture stomatitis was the most opposing lesion.
DeCS: DENTAL PROSTHESIS REPAIR; ORAL HEALTH; STOMATITIS, DENTURE; DIAGNOSIS, ORAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY, DESCRIPTIVE.

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Author Biography

Pedro Rafael Casado Méndez, Hospital Provincial Clínico-Quirúrgico Docente "Celia Sánchez Manduley"

Doctor en Medicina 2009

Especialista de 1er grado en MGI 2011

Profesor Instructor 2011

Investigador Agregado 2014

Especialista de 2do grado en MGI 2015

Médico residente de 4to año en Cirugía General. Hospital Provincial Clínico-Quirúrgico Docente "Celia Sánchez Manduley"

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Published

2016-12-08

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Casado Méndez PR, Arias Tardón R, Casado Méndez PR, Santos Fonseca RS, Méndez Jiménez O, Remón Elías M. Denture Repairs: oral health and prosthodontics state the applicants’. Arch méd Camagüey [Internet]. 2016 Dec. 8 [cited 2025 Dec. 17];20(6):700-9. Available from: https://revistaamc.sld.cu/index.php/amc/article/view/4782

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Vol. 20 No. 6 (2016)

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Original Articles

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