2011
DOI: 10.1590/s0102-311x2011001000017
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Abstract: This study aimed to identify factors associated with edentulism and spatial risk of tooth loss in the elderly. A cross-sectional study was conducted using a random sample (n = 372) of individuals 60 years and older in Botucatu, São Paulo State, Southeast Brazil, in 2005. Crude and adjusted prevalence ratios were estimated by Poisson regression with robust variance. Spatial analysis was performed using Kernel intensity estimation. Prevalence of edentulism was 63.17%. Socio-demographic factors associated with ed… Show more

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“…Few teeth could be assessed in the quantity of people in the study, as well as other researches indicate 33,34 . Absence of natural teeth is supplied, in part, by prostheses, specially dentures.…”
Section: Oral Health Clinical Conditionsmentioning
confidence: 86%
“…Few teeth could be assessed in the quantity of people in the study, as well as other researches indicate 33,34 . Absence of natural teeth is supplied, in part, by prostheses, specially dentures.…”
Section: Oral Health Clinical Conditionsmentioning
confidence: 86%
“…A alta prevalência de edentulismo entre os idosos é herança de um modelo assistencial focado em práticas curativas e mutiladoras 32 , e produz efeitos significativos na saúde e qualidade de vida, pois afetam a capacidade mastigatória, o consumo de diversos alimentos, a fonação e causam impactos estéticos importantes. Esses fatores atuam reduzindo o bem-estar, provocando alterações psicológicas e funcionais.…”
Section: Discussionunclassified
“…The increase in edentulism with age seems to be a universal trend, creating the social imaginary figure of the old toothless elderly and the acceptance of tooth loss as a natural evolution of the human dentition, more or less in the sense of "we are born without teeth and die without teeth" [40].…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This latter fact reveals the importance of the function of the dentist in maintaining oral health, yet there to highlight all the influence of hegemonic paradigms and dominant ideology contained in the dental practice of a particular historical moment [40]. This is one of the reasons why teeth are extracted could be recovered, since this alternative is considered the most convenient and also the most economical [18,46].…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%