caa a22 4500 469048700 CHVBK 20180323132824.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e19920601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF01324406 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF01324406 Dental prosthetic status and needs of an elderly population living in long-term care facilities in Singapore [Elektronische Daten] [George Soh, Yea-Hwe Chong, Grace Ong] This study examined the prosthetic status and needs among an elderly population living in long-term care facilities in Singapore. A total of 488 subjects were randomly selected and 479 of them were examined. The results show that 56.2 percent of selected subjects were edentulous while 43.8 percent had one or more teeth missing. The average number of teeth present among dentate subjects was 7.5. Of the edentulous subjects, 78 percent of them reported not having any dentures, and more than 20 percent of existing dentures were found to be defective and had to be replaced. A higher proportion (94 percent) of dentate subjects who could have benefitted from having partial dentures did not have them. The findings of this study clearly demonstrate high unmet needs for prosthetic care among an institutionalized elderly population. Human Sciences Press, Inc., 1992 Soh George Department of Preventive Dentistry, National University of Singapore, National University Hospital, 5 Lower Kent Ridge Road, 0511, Singapore aut Chong Yea-Hwe aut Ong Grace aut Journal of Community Health Kluwer Academic Publishers-Human Sciences Press 17/3(1992-06-01), 175-181 0094-5145 17:3<175 1992 17 10900 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01324406 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01324406 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Soh George Department of Preventive Dentistry, National University of Singapore, National University Hospital, 5 Lower Kent Ridge Road, 0511, Singapore aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Chong Yea-Hwe aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Ong Grace aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Community Health Kluwer Academic Publishers-Human Sciences Press 17/3(1992-06-01), 175-181 0094-5145 17:3<175 1992 17 10900 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer