Original scientific paper
Influence of Social Factors and General Health Status on Oral Health
Annerose Borutta
; Dental School and WHO Collaborating Centre of Erfurt, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Byelorussia
Walter Kunzel
; Dental School and WHO Collaborating Centre of Erfurt, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Byelorussia
Edwin Lenz
; Dental School and WHO Collaborating Centre of Erfurt, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena 2Minsk Medical Institute, Byelorussia
Valerij Orda
; Minsk Medical Institute, Byelorussia
Matjaž Rode
; University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Stefan Wloch
; Medical Academie of Poznan, Poland
Roswitha Heinrich-Weltzein
; Dental School and WHO Collaborating Centre of Erfurt, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena 2Minsk Medical Institute, Byelorussia
Angelika Guckler
; Institute of Medical Information and Biometrics of the Charite Hospital of the Humboldt Universitiy, Berlin, Germany
Abstract
Within the framework o f a multinational study to determine the
gerostomatological treatment need a number of social criteria was
examined concerning their influence on oral health. Additionally the
oral health status o f institutionalized elderly people was compared
with that of non-institutionalised elderly people. The results showed
that urban residents generally enjoy better oral health than rural residents. Differences were shown to exist for different occupations. A
lower level of professional qualification was related most of the time to a higher treatment need. Oral health among nursing home residents was generally worse than among the people living independently. Consequently, there was a higher treatment need for the nursing home residents.
Keywords
elderly; oral health status; handicapped; sociodemographics
Hrčak ID:
98262
URI
Publication date:
15.9.1997.
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