Summary:
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 questionnaire
about nutritional customs (?), anthropometric measurement of BMI and laboratory determination
of the level of albumin, minerals, oral examination of malnutrition symptoms and quantitative
determination 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.
Key words:
malnutrition – risk factors – total substitutions – albumin
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