Satisfaction of the Elderly after Complete Dentures Insertion on upper and Lower Arch at Jaturapakpiman District, Roi Et Province, Thailand

Abstract

A cross-sectional study was conducted among 270 elderly patients who got complete dentures h m Jatumpkpiman district hospital, Roi Et province, Thailand. The study had 3 objectives: (1) To determine satisfaction of the elderly after complete denture insertion related to oral health impact profile (Om and questions related to satisfaction of upper and lower denture; (2) To assess the oral hygiene behavior and denture care after the complete denture insertion; (3) To identify the factor associated with satisfaction and oral health impact after denture insertion. Dental nurses and interviewers were ’mined to administer the standardized questionnaire, Interviews were conducted February and March 2010. Frequencies, percentages, means and standard deviations were used to describe demographic data, oral hygienic behaviors and denture care. To assess associations between dependent and independent variables, Spearman correlation, Mann-Whitney U tests, and Kruskal-Wallis tests were used. The average age was 7 1.55 years, 140 persons were male (51.9%). Married patients were 157 persons (58.1%). The majority (69.3%) of study population were primary education. 80.0% of patients were in agriculture and their W yin come were less than 1,000 baht/month (64.8%), Sources of information, they knew the information to get dentures from friends 35.2 percent, hospital 31.2 percent. Oral hygienic behavior, most of them showed they had coffee and tea drinking 76.3 percent, carbonic drinking 68.1 percent. Patents who used water and chemical tablets to clean dentures had significant higher OHIP and satisfaction with lower and upper dentures (P<0.034). Brushing teeth was not consistently associated with OHIP or satisfaction with dentures. Not removing dentures at bedtime was associated with lower OHIP and satisfaction.