Abstract
As the increased of age, the mouth commonly becames dried and could cause difficulty
either in swallowing foods or using denture. The condition could produced a bad
breath (halitosis). Study about halitosis in these people becomes interested because of
many people are using denture nowadays. The aim of this study is determinet the effect
of using denture in older with the product of halitosis. The study will evaluated how
serious the halitosis condition will happened in the correlation between duration of
using any kind denture and the product of halitosis.This study perform in Makassar
City, consist of fifty people over sixty years old who still using denture with not
systemic factors in a non random sampling.
Conclusion, there is 46 % with medium category byusing rub smell and blowsmell
detections, use using dentures could produced halitosis, compare with the other kinds
of denture, partial denture is the most common couse in produced halitosis, and was
influenced by the duration of denture.
Recommended Citation
Dharmautama, Moh.; Koyama, Angela Thomas; and Kusumawati, Astri
(2008)
"Tingkat keparahan halitosis pada manula pemakai gigitiruan,"
Dentofasial: Vol. 7:
Iss.
2, Article 4.
DOI: 10.15562/jdmfs.v7i2.200
Available at:
https://scholarhub.unhas.ac.id/dentofasial/vol7/iss2/4
Pages
106-113
Rights
©2016Moh. Dharmautama, Angela Thomas Koyama, Astri Kusumawati
DOI
10.15562/jdmfs.v7i2.200