Objectives: This study was to study the relationship between the smoking and drinking of the elderly and the wearing of denture, investigate the effect of smoking and drinking on the wearing of denture in the elderly, and provide the basis for establi...
Objectives: This study was to study the relationship between the smoking and drinking of the elderly and the wearing of denture, investigate the effect of smoking and drinking on the wearing of denture in the elderly, and provide the basis for establishing the senior oral health policy
Material and Method: This study employs raw data of 7th (2016-2018) Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys. Among
941 male of 65 or older who participated in dental examination. Through dental examination on the dentures, wearing state was studied and the subjects were classified into ‘wearing dentures’ and ‘non-wearing dentures’. The subjects were classified into ‘non drinking’, ‘drinking’ based on alcohol consumption, while classified into non-smoker, past smoker, current smoker based on smoking to analyze relevance of the concurrent use of wearing dentures.
Results: Among the subjects, 227(22.3%) were wearing dentures, whereas 714(76.7%) did not. Based on analysis, increased smoking duration was associated with denture. And current smoking-No drinking(odds ratio[OR] 2.554; 95% confidence interval[CI], 1.119-5.832), current smoking-current drinking showed(odds ratio[OR] 2.007; 95% confidence interval[CI], 1.023-3.941) significantly higher odds ratio of wearing denture when compared to not-at-all·non-smoker and not-at-all·non-drinker.
Odds ratio of wearing denture was significantly higher in male elderly with concurrent use of drinking and smoking than male elderly who did not drinking or smoking.
Conclusion: The denture in the elderly was closely related to smoking period. Also, wearing denture was significantly higher in male elderly with concurrent use of drinking and smoking than male elderly who did not drinking or smoking. Therefore, improve the oral health and quality of life of elderly adults, drinking alcohol and smoking cessation education will be required, and oral health management projects are necessary.