PATHOLOGY OF ORAL MUCOSA IN THE ELDERLY PATIENTS – CLINICAL - STATISTICAL STUDY
Abstract:
Purpose of the study: the authors address the specific pathology of oral mucosa in the elderly patients, mainly because in dentistry, the diagnosis of these disorders involves special therapeutic approaches. Study material and method: a clinical-statistical study was performed on a group of 100 patients of both sexes, aged between 55 and 75 years old, aiming at detecting oral mucosal lesions, with or without the presence of several simultaneous comorbidites. The results of the examined patients with impaired oral mucosa were submitted to statistical analysis, revealing the presence of 32 patients with mucosal lesions, 16 women and 16 men. The analysis of the lesion types revealed the diversity of the discovered lesion forms, in direct relation with age and associated risk factors which occurred more frequently in the patients over the age of 55. In conclusion, oral mucosal lesions should be considered as complex, in the context of the biological age of the patient, but also in the presence of the general risk factors and the delimitation between the elderly patients, with physiological changes caused by the aging process and the elderly patients with obvious signs of general associated illness, in other words, a delimitation between the state of disease and aging, with their repercussions on the patients’ quality of life and last but not least, a consideration of the local-regional factors.
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