Čes. stomatol. Prakt. zub. lék. (Czech Dental Journal) 2004; 104(2): 42-53
The Condition of Nutrition in Patients with Total Substitution
- II. stomatologická klinika LF UP a FN, Olomouc, přednosta prof. MUDr. M. Eber, CSc.
The aim of the study was to examine the conditions of nutrition in 116 carriers of full denture formed in the occluder without objective stomatognathic registration. In order to evaluate nutritional conditions the author used a combination of results of a questionnaireabout nutritional customs (?), anthropometric measurement of BMI and laboratory determination of the level of albumin, minerals, oral examination of malnutrition symptoms and quantitativedetermination of mixed saliva. Malnutrition was demonstrated in 10 individuals of the examined substitution carriers at the age of 45-89 years. The were 7 cases of protein-energy malnutrition and three subjects with protein malnutrition. It also became obvious that 48 patients were severely endangered with malnutrition. The results of analysis of stomatological anamnesis draw attention to necessary changes in the system of making teeth prostheses.
Keywords: malnutrition; risk factors; total substitutions; albumin
Published: June 1, 2004 Show citation
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