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Dental status, quality of life, and mortality in an older community population
— a multivariate approach | | Author(s) | Ildebrando Appollonio, Corrado Carabellese, Alessandra Frattola |
| Journal title | Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, vol 45, no 11, November 1997 |
| Pages | pp 1315-1323 |
| Keywords | Dental problems ; Dentures ; Quality of life ; Health [elderly] ; Death ; Over 70s ; Italy. |
| Annotation | Oral health, in both younger and older people, is an integral part of general health, and has an impact on and is influenced by health related quality of life at the biological, psychological and social levels. The aim of this study was to assess the relationships between a functional measure of dental status and several domains of quality of life, and long-term survival in an older community population, aged between 70 and 75 years, in Brescia, northern Italy. The subjects were classified into three groups using a functional measure of dental status: naturally adequate and naturally inadequate dental status, and denture wearers. Findings revealed a significant association between dental status and different variables of quality of life as well as selective demographic parameters. Older people with adequate functional dental status were found to have a better survival rate than those with inadequate dental status, although this was not the case for denture wearers. |
| Accession Number | CPA-971209402 A |
| Classmark | BLA: M7: F:59: CC: CW: BBK: 76V |
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