Abstract
The aim was to study the determinants of preventive oral health care need among community-dwelling old people. The study population consisted of 165 participants, a subpopulation in the Geriatric Multidisciplinary Strategy for Good Care of Elderly People (GeMS) study. Fifty-five percent of the edentate participants with full dentures and 82% of the dentate had a need for preventive oral health care. In the total study population, the need for preventive care was associated with co-morbidity (measured by means of the Modified Functional Co-morbidity Index) odds ratios (OR) 1.2 (confidence intervals [CI] 1.0-1.5), being pre-frail or frail, OR 2.5 (CI 1.2-5.1), presence of natural teeth, OR 4.8 (CI 2.2-10.4), and among dentate participants, the use of a removable partial denture, OR 12.8 (CI 1.4-114.4). Primary care clinicians should be aware of the high need for preventive care and the importance of nonoral conditions as determinants of preventive oral health care need.
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