Turgut Cankaya Z, Yurdakos A, Gokalp Kalabay P. The association between denture care and oral hygiene habits, oral hygiene knowledge and periodontal status of geriatric patients wearing removable partial dentures.
Eur Oral Res 2020;
54:9-15. [PMID:
32518905 PMCID:
PMC7252529 DOI:
10.26650/eor.20200048]
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Abstract
Purpose:
This study aims to evaluate the association of the denture care with oral hygiene
habits, knowledge and periodontal status geriatric patients wearing removable
partial denture (RPD) and to compare the relationship between denture cleaning
and tooth brushing frequency.
Patients and methods:
In total, 553 participants wearing RPD for at least 6 months and aged 65–86 years
were asked to complete a questionnaire following the clinical examination. Chisquare
analysis and Fisher’s exact test utilized to analyze the data.
Results:
A significant relationship was found between the frequency of smoking, denture
age, overnight denture wearing, denture stomatitis and denture cleaning (p<0.05).
54.10% of the participants reporting that they did not have information about
denture care had poor denture cleaning. Among patients brushing once per day,
26.34% had a good level of denture cleaning; whereas, this was 39.40% for those
brushing three times in a day.
Conclusion:
The type of advice (verbal or written) and oral hygiene habits demonstrated a
more significant impact on the cleaning level of dentures than the socioeconomic
level, smoking, overnight use, denture age. The success of denture maintenance
might depend on the patients’ knowledge of denture care and hygiene habits and
geriatric patients’ motivation.
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