Subject: Health sciences
Year: 2023
Type: Conference or Workshop Item
Type: PeerReviewed
Title: Physical dimensions and quality of life at geriatric mobile denture wearers in Macedonia
Author: Stavreva, Natasa
Author: Bajraktarova Valjakova, Emilija
Author: Mijoska, Aneta
Author: Bilbilova-Zabokova, Efka
Author: Simonovska, Jasna
Author: Trpevska, Vesna
Author: Stefanoska, Tanja
Author: Kokoceva Ivanova, Olga
Author: Jovanovski, Saso
Author: Petrovski, Mihajlo
Author: Markovska Arsovska, Mirjana
Abstract: Aim. Physical dimension (nutrition and speech) is one important factor for perception of overall oral health and quality of life. Main purpose of this study was to perform an assessment of the infl uence of the type of edentulism and mobile dentures to a possibility for nutrition and speech at geriatric patients in Macedonia. Materials and methods. The survey was a prospective transversal (cross sectional) study conducted among 165 institutionally sheltered patients at Gerontology Institute (inspected group – IG) and 170 patients from the dental specialist clinics (control group CG) at age 65 and older. Statistical program SPSS for Windows ver. 13.0 was used for statistical processing. Results. Patients with total dentures were dominant (43,6% vs. 26,5%). There was a statistically highly signifi cant difference in restriction in type and quantity of food that patients in both groups can consume (p=0,000002). 49,09% of patients of IC and 52,9% of CG very often have problem with biting and chewing different types of food because of the dentures. Patients of IG have signifi cantly more often problems with swallowing than the patients of CG (p=0,0026). Patients from IG are highly signifi cantly more rarely prevented in normal speech because of the dentures (p=0,0066), where patients mostly “often” and “very often” have problems with normal speech. Conclusion. Geriatric patients with mobile dentures have disrupted physical dimension of the quality of life (nutrition and speech), signifi cantly more expressed at patients of CG. Patients of both groups have signifi cantly different quality of life. Key words: GOHAI indicator, geriatric patients, mobile dentures, physical dimension, quality of life, nutrition, speech
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Relation: https://eprints.ugd.edu.mk/34864/
Identifier: oai:eprints.ugd.edu.mk:34864
Identifier: https://eprints.ugd.edu.mk/34864/1/Trud%20merged%20Belgrade%202024%20%281%29%20%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%88%D0%B0.pdfIdentifier: Stavreva, Natasa and Bajraktarova Valjakova, Emilija and Mijoska, Aneta and Bilbilova-Zabokova, Efka and Simonovska, Jasna and Trpevska, Vesna and Stefanoska, Tanja and Kokoceva Ivanova, Olga and Jovanovski, Saso and Petrovski, Mihajlo and Markovska Arsovska, Mirjana (2023) Physical dimensions and quality of life at geriatric mobile denture wearers in Macedonia. In: Kongres Stomatologa Srbije.
