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. 2010:2010:584134.
doi: 10.1155/2010/584134. Epub 2010 Sep 22.

Influence of type of prosthesis on oral environment and the number of missing teeth in elderly persons

Junko Tanaka  1 , Masahiro Tanaka
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Influence of type of prosthesis on oral environment and the number of missing teeth in elderly persons

Junko Tanaka et al. Int J Dent. 2010.

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between the number of missing teeth (MT) and the statuses of oral environmental factors (the stimulated salivary flow rate, buffering capacity, and the counts of mutans streptococci, lactobacilli, and Candida) in the elderly. The subjects were 64 elderly subjects with fixed prostheses and 49 who wore removable partial dentures aged over 65 years. We used one-way ANOVA to test for overall differences of the number of MT among 5 oral environmental factors. The significant differences were observed in the lactobacilli counts for different number of MT. The number of MT increased with an increase in the lactobacilli counts with removable denture. In conclusion, for the patients wearing removable dentures, increasing number of MT was associated with an increase in the lactobacilli counts in saliva. For the patients with crowns and fixed partial dentures, the number of MT was not significantly affected by salivary mutans streptococci, lactobacilli, and Candida counts.

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Results of the differences between MT and oral environmental factors in Dentate group.
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Results of the differences between MT and oral environmental factors in Denture group (**P < .01).
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