초록
Purpose: The recent proliferation of the aging population, oral health care is closely related to the mental health of the elderly is very important being recognized. Provide basic data for improving the quality of life for the elderly, to determine whether the oral health of the elderly whether oral self-perception of health and any related wish. Methods: Surveys to May 20 from April 15, 2011, subjects were elderly and living in Daejeon and Chungnam 277 people were examined. All the statistics using SPSS 18.0 for the determination of statistical significance, and the significance level was 0.05. Results: 1. Recognized, the most common oral health, self-aware bad the state (46.2%) there was no significant difference in the general characteristics according to self-Oral health status, remaining natural dimensions or the intra-oral prosthetic, there was no significant difference. More teeth, residual phase, in accordance with intra-oral prosthetic mandibular Not all dentures, partial dentures, full dentures net self-perception of oral health status better recognized. 2. According to the type of partial dentures, oral health status self-phase, mixed mandibular removable, fixed, fixed, removable partial dentures in order to recognize that good oral health, self-aware state, showed between them, there was no significant difference. 3. Of variable dimension that has nothing to do with the remaining natural maxillary and mandibular prosthetic maxillary prosthetic mandibular partial dentures, age income, a positive correlation was negatively correlated. The case of the mandible, the mandibular prosthetic mandibular partial denture, maxillary prosthetic, the amount of income were correlated. 4. Intra-oral Prosthetics correlation variables in the maxillary, mandibular prosthesis, the positive correlation between income, age was negatively correlated, if the income of the mandible. Maxillary partial denture has nothing to do with the variable portion of the mandibular denture, age was a negative correlation was found. Conclusion: Satisfaction and how now it is important simply to live as long, but you need to pay attention to the quality of life, sometimes with an aging population and the increase of soybean To buy the loss of teeth causes the typical health problems of the elderly. Elderly people of any relevant oral health and the oral cavity by the state to determine whether to provide the basic data for oral health education was more residual value, intra-oral prosthetics there is no more self-aware, the oral health status is good to recognize that appeared. Strengthen the oral health education to improve the quality of life of the elderly, and is thought to be necessary to increase the number of residual.
