Revisión sistemática de las lesiones de la mucosa oral en pacientes adultos mayores con uso de prótesis.

Abstract

Objective: To analyze and synthesize the available literature related to the use of prostheses and the presence of oral pathologies in older adult patients. Materials and methods: A qualitative and cross-sectional systematic review was carried out, where a bibliography of oral mucosa lesions in older adult patients with prostheses was searched, the bibliographic search of the publications was carried out in the following databases: Cochrane, Pubmed / Medline, Scopus and Web of scence, In addition, articles from a time interval between 2002 - 2019 were used. Results: Regarding the lesions of the oral mucosa related to the use of prostheses in older adults, we can observe that the pathologies that are related to the use of prostheses in older adults were sub-prosthetic stomatitis, candidiasis, traumatic ulcers, epulis and angular cheilitis. Subprosthetic stomatitis is the oral pathology associated with the use of prostheses that reports the largest number of cases in the literature with a total of 3689 (30.1%) patients. It was determined that oral pathologies related to the use of prostheses in older adults had a higher prevalence rate in the female gender with 37.2%. In addition, it was identified that 74.19% of the evaluated patients had prostheses in poor condition. Conclusion: The status of the prostheses plays a significant role in the appearance of oral pathologies related to the use of prostheses, in addition, older adult patients have greater susceptibility to the appearance of pathologies due to different components such as systemic ones, in addition to the limitations for perform good oral hygiene.