ANALYSIS OF QUALITY OF LIFE OF ELDERLY PATIENTS AT THE STAGE OF REHABILITATION WITH REMOVABLE ORTHOPEDIC DESIGNS

In the elderly and senile age, the need for medical care, including dental care, is increasing. The untimely appeal for dental care entails a change in the KPI index, as a result of which a partial or complete loss of teeth occurs. Complete absence of teeth is accompanied by morphofunctional changes of all elements of the dentoalveolar system, a significant decrease in chewing ability. Providing orthopedic dental care to the population of elderly, senile and old age is not easy due to the peculiarities of adaptation to removable dentures. In this study, the impact of removable dentures on the quality of life of a dental patient was assessed. The study involved 217 people aged 75 to 95 years. All patients needed removable prosthetics. Before the prosthetics, a questionnaire was conducted using the OHIP-14 questionnaire. The questionnaire showed the level of satisfaction with their dental health of the patients being examined. Then proceed to prosthetics. In the first group, the prosthesis was manufactured using a standard method. In the second group, the impression was removed using a modified individual spoon, which should improve adaptation to a removable denture. One month after the prosthesis, when all patients had complete adaptation to a removable denture, a second questionnaire was conducted using the OHIP-14 questionnaire. In order to reveal the dynamics of the quality of life of the patients being examined. The results showed the effectiveness of the proposed method. The number of patients with a good standard of living in group 2 increased by 58.8%, and in group 1 only by 34.5%. In group 2, adaptation to removable dentures was more rapid.

gerontology, removable denture, quality of life, orthopedic dentistry