Abstract

GUTIERREZ-VARGAS, Vanessa Leila; LEON-MANCO, Roberto Antonio  and  CASTILLO-ANDAMAYO, Diana Esmeralda. Edentulism and need of prosthetic treatment for adults in marginal urban human settlement area.. Rev. Estomatol. Herediana [online]. 2015, vol.25, n.3, pp.179-186. ISSN 1019-4355.

Objectives: To determine the prevalence of edentulism and the need for prosthetic treatment in adults aged from 18 to 64 years in marginal urban human settlement areas from "El golfo de Ventanilla, distrito de Ventanilla, Callao - Lima, 2014." Methods: A descriptive, cross-sectional observational study. The population consisted of 1350 people and the sample was calculated at 168 adults which evaluated by collecting datasheet, structured by a questionnaire from the World Health Organization (WHO)for edentulous people. Results: We found that there is a frequent edentulism in the population of 121 (72%) and the need for prosthetic treatment of partial and total present for the upper maxilla with 100 (59.6%) and in the lower maxilla with 113 (67.3%). Conclusions: We found the vast majority of the population had edentulism and an urgent need for a prosthetic treatment.

Keywords : Edentulous; fullmouth dental implants; partial dentures; dentate.

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