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Perbedaan Status Gizi Lansia Terhadap Penggunaan Gigi Tiruan Yanti, Cici Apriza; Harfi, Lindah Wahidah; Nurhayati, Nurhayati
Jurnal Kesehatan - Institut Kesehatan Prima Nusantara Bukittinggi Vol 10, No 3 (2019): Jurnal Kesehatan
Publisher : STIKes Prima Nusantara Bukittinggi

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The population of the elderly indicates the increasing age of life expectancy. The elderly in Indonesia has lost a tooth that belonged to high, i.e. 24% of the toothless condition in society above the age of 65 years The loss of teeth is one of the factors affecting the nutritional status of the elderly. This study aimed to determine Nutritional Status Differences toward Dentures Use in the Elderly in Guguk Panjang Community Health Center Bukittinggi in 2018. The design of this research was descriptive-analytic. The populations were all elderly dentures in Guguk Panjang Community Health Center. They were 32 people. The data was processed by univariate and bivariate analysis by using Independent Sample T-test. The results of this research found that from16 elderly claimed that two of them (12.5%) had underweight nutritional status. Then, 6 or 37.5% did not have phytic was of poor nutritional status. Moreover, the statistical test results obtained p=0.004 from the nutritional status of the elderly used dentures and did not use dentures. In short, it can be concluded that there was a significant difference between the nutritional statuses of the elderly used in dentures and did not use dentures. Then, elderly who wear dentures dental hygiene and it is suggested to the elderly to pay attention to their health and food intake.