대구소재 한 노인요양병원 입원환자들의 구강상태와 저작능력에 관한 연구
A Study on Dental Health and Chewing ability of Patients Hospitalized in Geriatric Hospital of Daegu
박수철, 정명희, 최성미,
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박수철 ( Park Soo-Chul ) - 김천대학교 치기공과
정명희 ( Jung Myung-Hee ) - 송호대학 치위생과
최성미 ( Choi Sung-Mi ) - 동의대학교 평생교육원
KMID : 0362120110330030237
Abstract
Purpose: This study investigates dental health and chewing ability of patients hospitalized in geriatric hospital, and compares the chewing ability for each factor that can be used as data for dental healthcare of senior citizens and basic data for denture insurance for the elderly.
Methods: The 101 subjects of this study were selected from 178 patients hospitalized in a geriatric hospital located in Daegu Metropolitan City, excluding 77 patients who were being treated in the intensive care unit and who were unable to communicate. The chewing ability of the patients were measured using an evaluation scale based on foods consisting of 10 different hardnesses.
Results: Patients with less than 21 teeth, those with dentures and patients who were less than satisfied with their dental conditions had difficulties in chewing hard food such as dried squid and radish kimchi, and the Chewing ability increased proportionally to the number of remaining teeth(p<0.001), appropriateness of the maxillary and mandibular dentures(p<0.005) and the level of dental satisfaction(p<0.001).
Conclusion: This study is limited as the subjects were selected from a single hospital and the authors estimate that various studies will be necessary to investigate the Chewing ability of patients hospitalized in long-term hospitals. The subjects of this study did not receive any dental treatment while staying in the hospital and many of the subjects had bad fit denture or didn’t have dentures or did not use dentures, although they have dentures, which calls for denture construction and prosthetics through dental treatment.
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Chewing ability; Oral conditions; Patients in Geriatric Hospital
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