Correlation Between Patients With Partial Tooth Loss Characteristics Andpatients' Motivation To Use Dentures At Rsgm Of Jember University

Abstract

Objective: The impact of losing teeth can disturb the intake of nutrition because of the decreasing of the mastication, dysfunction of phonetic functions so we can't spell some alphabet and uncomfortable feeling. Many people think that losing teeth is not a big problem that can run your life so the small percentage of the usage of denture. Patients' characteristics, socio-demography knowledge and level can affect someone's motivation to take a decision to get a prosthetic care. The characteristics of the patients that take treatment from RSGM Universitas .Jernber are about gender (male/female), age and education level. Objective:The purpose of this study is to know the correlation between patients' with partial tooth loss characters and patients' motivation to use denture at RSGM of Jember University. Materials and methods: An observational analytical researoh with cross sectional approach. All patients who attended the oral diagnostic department at RSGM of Jemcer University on January-Maret 2016 were chosen as samples with total number of 106 patients. The study used intraoral examination and questionnaires. The data were analyzed using Chi-Squareand Rank Spearman test. Results and Oiscussion:The result of statistical analysis is there are correlation between patients' characteristics (education) with {he motivation to use denture p<0,05, but there's no correlation between gender, age of the patients with their motivation to use denture (p>0,05)).