title: [Do elderly individuals with a cognitive handicap have worse oral health?].
abstract: A comparison of the oral health of elderly people with and without a cognitive handicap was assessed. The cognitive condition, the indices of decayed, missing, filled teeth (DMFT), decayed, filled roots (DFR), the need for dental treatment, the presence of plaque (P), calculus (C), the community periodontal index (CPI), the rate of periodontal attachment loss (PAL), edentulism, prosthetic use and the need for prosthetics were evaluated in a complex probabilistic sample by conglomerates of the elderly (65-74 years). PASW(r) 17.0 was used for the statistical analyses with correction for the design effect, applying the Mann Whitney and chi-square test with 95% reliability. A total of 736 elderly individuals were interviewed and examined. Those with cognitive impairment had higher average DMFT, DFR and lower average healthy sextant CPI, a lower prevalence of sextants without plaque/calculus, use of prosthetics and higher prevalence of edentulism and need for prosthetics. Elderly individuals with a cognitive handicap had poorer oral health.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Odontologia Social e Preventiva, Faculdade de Odontologia, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brasil, martins.andreamebl@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Raquel Conceição
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: Ferreira
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Odontologia Social e Preventiva, Faculdade de Odontologia, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brasil, martins.andreamebl@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Andréa Maria Duarte
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Vargas
authors.affiliation: Faculdade de Odontologia de Piracicaba, Universidade Estadual de Campinas.
authors.forename: Neuma Carla Neves
authors.initials: NC
authors.lastname: Fernandes
authors.affiliation: Faculdade de Odontologia de Piracicaba, Universidade Estadual de Campinas.
authors.forename: João Gabriel Silva
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: Souza
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Odontologia, Universidade Federal de Montes Claros.
authors.forename: Maria Aparecida Barbosa de
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Sá
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Odontologia, Universidade Federal de Montes Claros.
authors.forename: Lorenna Fonseca Braga de
authors.initials: LF
authors.lastname: Oliveira
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Odontologia Social e Preventiva, Faculdade de Odontologia, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brasil, martins.andreamebl@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Andréa Maria Eleutério de Barros Lima
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Martins
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D060825:Cognitive Dysfunction / Q000150:complications*; D003753:Dental Health Surveys; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009909:Oral Health