Increase of Handgrip Strength After the Use of Removable Partial Dentures.

Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Sarcopenia

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04606745

HDEN

Details and patient eligibility

About

A common goal of the health professions is to keep the elderly functional, preventing sarcopenia and frailty. Is there an association between handgrip strength in partially edentulous elderlies after completing their dentition with removable partial dentures?

Full description

A common goal of the health professions is to keep the elderly functional, preventing sarcopenia and frailty. Is there an association between handgrip strength in partially edentulous elderlies after completing their dentition with removable partial dentures?

Enrollment: 60 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 80+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• agree to participate by signing the voluntary informed consent form
• qualify according to the Eichner Index in any of the categories that represent the loss of premolars and molars: B3-B4-C1-and C2.

Exclusion criteria

• not accepting to participate
• cognitive or auditory sensory impairment-
• being dependent in activities of daily living
• belonging to another category of the Eichner Index