title: Relationship between masticatory performance using a gummy jelly and food intake ability in Japanese complete denture wearers.
abstract: Twenty patients wearing complete dentures were asked to chew a gummy jelly, and their glucose extraction was measured. Two types of masticatory scores (MS1 and MS2) were calculated using a food intake questionnaire. The relationship between masticatory scores and glucose extraction was investigated. The values of masticatory scores were large when the amount of glucose extraction was also large, and there were significantly positive correlations between the two. There was also a positive correlation between MS1 and MS2. It was suggested that the food intake ability was high when the masticatory performance using a gummy jelly was high.
authors.affiliation: Department of Partial and Complete Denture, The Nippon Dental University School of Life Dentistry at Tokyo, 1-9-20 Fujimi, Chiyoda, Tokyo, 102-8159, Japan. h-shiga@ndu.ac.jp.
authors.forename: Hiroshi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Shiga
authors.affiliation: Department of Partial and Complete Denture, The Nippon Dental University School of Life Dentistry at Tokyo, 1-9-20 Fujimi, Chiyoda, Tokyo, 102-8159, Japan.
authors.forename: Ayano
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ishikawa
authors.affiliation: Department of Partial and Complete Denture, The Nippon Dental University School of Life Dentistry at Tokyo, 1-9-20 Fujimi, Chiyoda, Tokyo, 102-8159, Japan.
authors.forename: Kunihisa
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Nakajima
authors.affiliation: Department of Partial and Complete Denture, The Nippon Dental University School of Life Dentistry at Tokyo, 1-9-20 Fujimi, Chiyoda, Tokyo, 102-8159, Japan.
authors.forename: Akira
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Tanaka
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001732:Bite Force; D002182:Candy; D003824:Denture, Complete; D004548:Elasticity; D005260:Female; D005502:Food; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D008297:Male; D008409:Mastication / Q000502:physiology*; D013499:Surface Properties; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
keywords: Complete dentures; Glucose extraction; Gummy jelly; Masticatory performance; Masticatory score