DESCRIPTION OF CLINICAL CHANGES ON ORAL MUCOSA IN ELDERLY
Introduction: changes on oral tissues can be taken as physiological changes associated to a dynamic process of morphological, functional, and biochemical modifications that start at birth and develop throughout life, which lead to impairment and disability for self-management processes, especially in oral tissues.
Objective: describing oral tissue changes associated to aging in older people.
Method: a descriptive study design, with a total population of 100 patients over 40 year at Santa Ana Geriatric Center, who were given an intraoral examination survey.
Results: elderly population group reported that 46.25 percent had bimaxillary dental prosthesis, and we observed 55 percent of oral mucosal lesions were predominant traumatic injuries, and the most frequent systemic involvement was cardiovascular type was (44 percent).
Conclusion: we observed statistically significant differences between association of clinical signs and prosthesis use and status giving a value of p= 0.0016.
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