Prevalence of Adentia in Elderly Individuals and Factors of its Development

Dental diseases are diverse, but among this variety, periodont pathology stands out due to its prevalence as a social, aesthetic and medical problem secondary in secondary adentia, called with general periodontitis, the effect of prosthetics on the prooxidant and antioxidant system is cited in the literature. According to the World Health Organization as a whole, functional disorders in the gums caused by untreated periodontitis are 5 times more common than complications of caries. According to the entire World Health Organization, up to 75% of the population in different regions of the globe suffers from it. A difficult task for a doctor in prosthetics of patients with a fully removable plate prosthesis is the uniform distribution of the original chewing pressure on the basis of a fully removable plate prosthesis over the entire area of the toothless prosthesis. Many authors note that the uneven distribution of the original chewing pressure on the toothless under-denture tissue leads to an increase in atrophy processes in places of overburden.