Impact of overdentures retained by a single mandibular implant on the swallowing threshold, quality of life and speech of edentulous elderly

niversidade Estadual de Campinas- Faculdade de Odontologia de Piracicaba0 个研究点开始时间: 2018年3月1日最近更新: 2023年5月29日

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•It will be selected 18 elderly over 60 years old, according to the following inclusion criteria: to be totally edentulous in the upper and lower dental arches, and to use upper and lower dentures for at least 1 year; to have posterior mandibular alveolar process sharply reabsorbed, with height less than or equal to 15 mm³,and lower anterior alveolar ridge compatible with the implant, and with a minimum bone volume of 8 mm, condition detected after radiographic examination and / or tomographic; to be a Portuguese native speaker and finally to be literate.

•The elderly with parafunctional habits; craniofacial malformation; moderate to deep hearing loss (evaluated by tonal audiometry), which are users or not of any individual sound amplification apparatus; cognitive impairment (evaluated through the application of the Mini Mental State Examination) ; aged with some language disorder; aged with severe speech disorder; elderly already done laryngeal surgery; aged who had experience with speech evaluations and with psychophysical; elderly with symptoms of temporomandibular joints and / or chewing muscles; aged with uncontrolled systemic diseases; neurological diseases, such as: ischemic or hemorrhagic stroke, traumatic brain injury, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease; elderly with psychiatric disorders which change the articulation of speech and the course of this study; smokers; alcoholics; aged who have performed head and / or neck irradiation due oncological diseases will be eliminated of this study.

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niversidade Estadual de Campinas- Faculdade de Odontologia de Piracicaba