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Affective state and acceptance of dentures in elderly patients
M Golebiewska1, T Sierpiñska, D Namiot
1Department of Prosthetic Dentistry, Institute of Stomatology, Bialystok, Poland.
Objective:
To examine the relationship between the affective state and acceptance of dentures by elderly patients.
Setting:
Dental Outpatient clinics and a residential home for the elderly. Bialystok, Poland.
Design:
Cross sectional survey of denture wearers.
Subjects:
One hundred and forty one patients between the ages of 60-94.
Intervention:
A semi-structured interview, which focused on the patient's self-evaluation of their affective state, and a clinical examination.
Results:
There was a trend for the negative affects (irritability, boredom, anger, loneliness, helplessness) to relate to denture intolerance and for the positive affects (joy, peace, usefulness) to relate to denture acceptance.
Conclusions:
Anger related significantly to intolerance of upper and lower dentures. The relationship of age and gender to the acceptance of dentures in the present sample was not significant.
