Oral Health And Its Influencial Factors Among Aging Retired Army Cadres

With the trend of growing aged population, the oral health problems of agedpeople are more and more prominent. According to the third national oral healthepidemiological survey, the morbidity rate of Dental caries in the aged people is88.1%in city and98.4%rural area. The periodontal health rate is14.5%in cityand14.1%in rural area. Caries and periodontal diseases are considered as thecommon causes of dental defect. The rate of tooth missing in aged is86.1%inour county. Dentition defect and dentition loss could lead to impairment ofmasticatory function and reduced nutrition absorption, which will inevitablyaffect the general health as well as the life quality of the aged population.Furthermore, it seems very unlikely to preserve natural dentition with thesymptoms caused by caries disease and periodontal disease appearing. So,researching the relevant factors with dentition defect and dentition loss isimportant to the health care for aged people. Aging retired army cadres (ARAC) are special people of aged, which aremost valuable asset of our military. During their long-term high intensity armylives, they were under different physiological stress and mental load fromnormal people; it would cause major impact to o ral disease occurrence,development and treatment effect. However, systematic research and relatedmaterial of ARACs’ oral disease characteristics and the relationship betweenoral health and general health were still insufficient. The results suggested thatthe works of Military oral medicine and Oral health service security neededpertinence and effectiveness.Our research investigated the oral health and systemic health of ARACs byEpidemiological survey, revealing the relationship between oral health andoverall health and oral care analyzing the cognition and behavior characteristicsThe research was composed of three parts.In the first part, tooth examinations were used to investigate oral healthcondition of ARACs, including caries, dental defect, periodontal diseases andthe type of dental restorations. The results suggested that DMFT and extend oftooth loss were significantly lower than ordinary alder in ARACs (p<0.05). Theprevalence of gingival bleeding was32%and dental calculus was85.1%. Theprevalence of Dentition defect/dentition loss was90.82%. The dentures wearerrate was89.97%of which the highest proportions were removable partialdentures; the lower proportions were fixed partial denture and removablecomplete dentures. The proportion of the improper restorations was small.Though the investigation of denture situation，the proportion of no denture was12.9%, the proportion of dentures in good situation was63.9%, the proportionof bad retention was21.5%, and the proportion of dentures cannot be wornnormally was1.1%. The second part investigated oral care cognition and behaviors. Oral healthcare knowledge was generally poor in ARACs. People who among the surveyquestions suchas Teeth loss is definitely amongaging people, proper methodof brushing teeth and Whether do regular oral examination, the right groupand wrong group were different in DMFT and MT. Therefore, we suppose thatoral health awareness have a direct effect on oral health condition. On thequestion of the effect of oral disease in living quality and oral health andcleaning condition, most ARACs selected good situation, while the realitieswere opposite. The investigation of oral care awareness mainly focused on thetreatment, attendance rate, abeying dentists, and attention degree of ARACs’oral diseases, which showed their oral care awareness, was higher than theaverage aging people, but was still too low.The third part was taken though questionnaires. The second partinvestigated the general health condition of ARACs, with which we analyzed therelativity between the systematic disease and oral disease in different age groups.The result shooed significantly different DMFT, MT and bleeding index（p<0.05）in the different age group and the groups between having chronicdiseases(diabetes, hypertension) or not. MT and bleeding index in coronaryheart disease group were higher（p<0.05）,while DMFT showed no difference（p>0.05）.Though surveys and analysis on the characteristic of oral health, overallhealth and oral health behavior in ARACs we hope they could cure disease andreduce the overall risks as soon as possible. Father more, it provides garentee onthe oral health and general health of ARACs, and collect materials andreferences for the General Logistics Department to make oral health carestrategies. Conclusions:1. The ARACS’ oral healthstatus was superior to the third nationalcensus in the elderly group, while there were high rates of tooth loss andpoor condition of periodontal health.2. Oral health knowledge awareness rate was closely related to oral healthstatus. The ARACS’ Oral health knowledge and health consciousness weresuperior to the third national census in the elderly group but still far frombeing satisfactory.3. Diabetes, hypertensionand coronary heart disease and ARACS’ oralhealth had correlation. Diabetes was most closely interconnected withoral health.