Lesiones paraprotésicas en pacientes geriátricos portadores de prótesis removibles

Introduction: geriatric patients with removable prostheses often present paraprosthetic lesions that have an unfavorable impact on their quality of life. Objective: to identify the type of paraprosthetic lesions in geriatric patients with removable prostheses. Method: an observational and descriptive study in a total of 97 patients with removable prostheses, no specific sex, and over 60 years of age, was carried out. All patients studied were presented to the Clinica Estomatologica Docente Provincial “Dr. Justo Ortelio Pestana Lorenzo” in Sancti Spiritus, from January 2019 throughout February 2020, with any type of oral lesions.  Theoretical, empirical and statistical-mathematical methods were used to study the following variables: age, sex, type of lesions. Results: the 49.5% of the total of patients studied were 60 to 69 years old and 66% were female. Most common paraprosthetic lesions found were the subprosthetic stomatitis (55.6%) and traumatic ulcers (31.9%). Conclusions: the oral lesions related to removable prostheses were most common in females. The subprosthetic stomatitis was the most predominant followed by the traumatic ulcer and fissured epulis.