Authors: Fuat Bislimi, Arbresha Tefiku, Qenan Saqipi, Andrea Aleksovska, Arben Asani

DOI: 10.62636/LZNY3958

Keywords: prosthetic stomatitis, dental plaque, oral hygiene, age of the prosthesis.

ABSTRACT

Prosthetic stomatitis is a multicausal disease that occurs in 11-67% of patients using mobile prostheses. The etiology of prosthetic stomatitis is multifactorial and refers to prosthetic rehabilitation with total or partial mobile prostheses. More frequent factors can be: traumatic, microbial, allergy, poor hygiene, age of the prosthesis, age and various diseases. The purpose of this paper is to ascertain the presence of prosthetic stomatitis in patients with mobile prostheses, to investigate the etiological factors of the appearance of this disease, to gain knowledge on the impact of oral hygiene, the time of wearing the prosthesis, gender and age of patients who wear mobile prostheses. For the realization of this work, 60 patients with mobile prostheses, whether total or partial, were observed. After taking the anamnesis of the patients and the clinical control, it is ascertained whether the prosthetic stomatitis is present in the patients, the classification of the level of inflammation, the registration of the dental plaque in the prostheses and the assessment was made according to the Tarbet index, the registration of the validity of the prostheses, the registration of the retention time prosthesis in the mouth, the age of the prosthesis and the use of tobacco. The results of this study show that 55% of patients have prosthetic stomatitis, poor oral and denture hygiene is present in almost 100% of cases, and the age of patients is correlated with the increased incidence of prosthetic stomatitis. Conclusion: From this we conclude that the most important factors in the appearance of prosthetic stomatitis are poor oral hygiene and that of prostheses, as well as the age of the patients.