[Dental examination of old people in the Institute for the Chronically Sick, Faculty Hospital with Policlinic, Olomouc].

Abstract

The authors made dental examinations in old age pensioners selected at random who were hospitalized in the Institute for the chronically sick in the Faculty Hospital with Policlinic in Olomouc. The group of hospitalized patients was compared with a random sample of pensioners treated at the prosthetic department of the Second Stomatological Clinic in Olomouc. The investigation revealed the necessity of dental treatment and treatment of the oral cavity in hospitalized patients. This applies in particular to partial removable dentures, total dentures and improvement of hygiene of the oral cavity. In the group of patients treated at the dental out-patient department it is important to improve in the first place the hygiene of the oral cavity.