The correlation between denture usage satisfactions on quality life of the elderly

Fuad H. Akbar (Department of Dental Public Health, Faculty of Dentistry, Hasanuddin University, Makassar, Indonesia)
Ayub I. Anwar (Department of Dental Public Health, Faculty of Dentistry, Hasanuddin University, Makassar, Indonesia)

Journal of Dentomaxillofacial Science
Vol. 2 No. 2 (2017): (Available online: 1 August 2017)

Objective: To analyze correlation between the denture use satisfactions and quality life of elderly and the relationship between gender and denture use satisfactionMaterial and Methods: This study is an observational analytical study. The sample of study is elderly population aged ≥50 years who live in Luwu Timur, South Sulawesi, the sample was to fill the questioner form based on OHIP-EDENT from WHO. The Chi-square test was used to analyze the relationship between gender and denture use satisfactions.Results: Spearman’s correlation test results for each domain OHIP-EDENT and OHIP-EDENT total showed a significant correlation of (p < 0.05) between denture use satisfaction and functional limitations, physical pain, psychological discomfort, and physical disability domain showed significant. Meanwhile, chi-squared test for denture use satisfactions to gender does not have a significant relationship.Conclusion: The denture use satisfactions has no correlation to quality of life of older adults. The gender dose not influence the satisfactions in denture use.