NECESSIDADE DE REABILITAÇÃO ORAL E ACESSO AOS SERVIÇOS ODONTOLÓGICOS DE IDOSOS INSTITUCIONALIZADOS NO MUNICÍPIO DE FEIRA DE SANTANA-BA

Abstract

Describe the sociodemographic conditions, needs for oral rehabilitation and access to dental care of institutionalized elderly in the city of Feira de Santana, Bahia. A cross-sectional study of 307 elderly people, 80 residents in long-stay institutions for the elderly (LSI) and 227 non-institutionalized. For the oral rehabilitation needs, the institutionalized had higher frequencies of individuals who did not use dental prothesis (68.35%), when used 52.0% of them were considered inadequade. Edentulism was noticed up as a public health problem of the elderly and the group formed by institutionalized elderly population showed higher oral rehabilitation needs, as well as less access to dental services when compared with the group not institutionalized in Feira de Santana-Ba.