We found a match
Your institution may have rights to this item. Sign in to continue.
- Title
Estomatitis subprotésica en pacientes venezolanos portadores de prótesis removibles.
- Authors
Iturriaga, María Elena Sánchez; Romagosa, Daniel Enrique Reyes; Tardón, Rayza Arias; Martín, Esmérida Alicia Rondón
- Abstract
A descriptive and cross-sectional study was carried out in 86 patients affected by denture stomatitis, with removable dental prosthesis (partial and complete) that attended the Stomatology Service of Las Llanadas in Cumaná municipality, belonging to Sucre State of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, from November 2009 to August 2010, in order to characterize them according to some variates of interest. The series showed that the highest percentage of patients were female and the age group of 35-59 years; also, the use of the removable complete denture in those over 60 years, the clinical grade II of the disease in smokers, continually bearing prosthesis, and clinical grade III of the lesion in those with more than 10 years of using the prosthesis, who received recommendations in this respect, prevailed.
- Subjects
VENEZUELA; ORAL diseases; CONTAGIOUS ecthyma; STOMATITIS treatment; PROSTHETICS; DENTURES; DENTAL implants
- Publication
MEDISAN, 2013, Vol 17, Issue 11, p8057
- ISSN
1029-3019
- Publication type
Article