The Condition of Nutrition in Patients with Total Substitution

Overview

The aim of the study was to examine the conditions of nutrition in 116 carriersof full denture formed in the occluder without objective stomatognathic registration. In orderto evaluate nutritional conditions the author used a combination of results of a questionnaireabout nutritional customs (?), anthropometric measurement of BMI and laboratory determinationof the level of albumin, minerals, oral examination of malnutrition symptoms and quantitativedetermination of mixed saliva. Malnutrition was demonstrated in 10 individuals of theexamined substitution carriers at the age of 45–89 years. The were 7 cases of protein-energymalnutrition and three subjects with protein malnutrition. It also became obvious that 48patients were severely endangered with malnutrition. The results of analysis of stomatologicalanamnesis draw attention to necessary changes in the system of making teeth prostheses.

Key words:
malnutrition – risk factors – total substitutions – albumin