Abstract
INTRODUCTION: Older people present with higher number of missing teeth and lower number of remaining natural teeth. Studies have shown that tooth loss are associated with reduction in physical, psychological and social function as well as the ability to chew. Elderly with 20 and more natural teeth had better OHRQoL compared to elderly having less than 20 natural teeth. Over the years, the Ministry of Health (MoH) are committed to provide oral healthcare services at all stages of life so as to ensure better OHRQoL are achieved in the aging population. This report describes the trends of elderly Malaysian age 60 years old with 20 and more natural teeth, average number of natural teeth and edentulism from year 2005 to 2017. METHODS: Service data were obtained from the e-reporting Health Information Management System (HIMS). These impact indicators were monitored annually. RESULTS: There is increasing proportion of 60 years old with 20 and more natural teeth from 30.6% (2005) to 41.4% (2017). Similar trends were seen on the average number of natural teeth from 13 (2005) to 16.9 (2017). On the contrary, edentulism status are reducing each year from 16.0% (2005) to 8.2% (2017). DISCUSSION: There is a steady improvement of proportion of elderly age 60 years old with 20 and more natural teeth. However, data is limited to elderly seen by the primary oral healthcare in MoH. The National Oral Health Target of 60% of 60 years old with 20 and more natural teeth by 2020 is still far reaching.
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@proceedings{APCPH-2019-284,
title = {Teeth for Life: Trends of Elderly Aged 60 With 20 Or More Natural Teeth (2005 -2017)},
author = {Zainab Shamdol},
year = {2019},
date = {2019-07-22},
urldate = {2019-07-22},
journal = {6th Asia-Pacific Conference on Public Health 2019 Proceedings},
issue = {6},
abstract = {INTRODUCTION: Older people present with higher number of missing teeth and lower number of remaining natural teeth. Studies have shown that tooth loss are associated with reduction in physical, psychological and social function as well as the ability to chew. Elderly with 20 and more natural teeth had better OHRQoL compared to elderly having less than 20 natural teeth. Over the years, the Ministry of Health (MoH) are committed to provide oral healthcare services at all stages of life so as to ensure better OHRQoL are achieved in the aging population. This report describes the trends of elderly Malaysian age 60 years old with 20 and more natural teeth, average number of natural teeth and edentulism from year 2005 to 2017. METHODS: Service data were obtained from the e-reporting Health Information Management System (HIMS). These impact indicators were monitored annually. RESULTS: There is increasing proportion of 60 years old with 20 and more natural teeth from 30.6% (2005) to 41.4% (2017). Similar trends were seen on the average number of natural teeth from 13 (2005) to 16.9 (2017). On the contrary, edentulism status are reducing each year from 16.0% (2005) to 8.2% (2017). DISCUSSION: There is a steady improvement of proportion of elderly age 60 years old with 20 and more natural teeth. However, data is limited to elderly seen by the primary oral healthcare in MoH. The National Oral Health Target of 60% of 60 years old with 20 and more natural teeth by 2020 is still far reaching.},
note = {Type: POSTER PRESENTATION; Organisation: Oral Health Programme, Ministry of Health Malaysia},
keywords = {20 and more teeth, 60 years old, edentulism},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {proceedings}
}