Reparaciones protésicas: salud bucal y estado prostodóncico de los solicitantes

Background: the requesting denture repairs doesn't constitute an urgency in stomatology but this originates an opportunity of revision of the buccal cavity. Objective: to establish the health buccal aspects and the prosthodontics state of the patient applicants of some type of denture repairs. Methods: a quantitative, longitudinal and descriptive study of cases series in 482 patients requesting some type of denture repairs in specialized consults, in the Manuel Sanchez Municipal Stomatolgical Clinic, Manzanillo, Granma, in the first semester of the year 2016. Results: the 56,85 % of the patients that requested some type of denture repairs, was of the female sex. The age stocking was of 63,27 years in a 28-86 year-old range. The application of denture repairs was bigger in total denture (55,81 %) superiors (53,94 %) being the complete fractures (38,59 %) the main application reason. The revisions of the buccal cavity were diminishing with the time of use of the denture. The risk factor of more referred was the frequency and incorrect methods of buccal hygiene (83,2 %) while the denture stomatitis was the verified buccal lesion (21,16 %). Conclusions: the applications of denture repairs owe you, in their majority, to complete fractures and these they are made by patients that have a frequency and incorrect methods of buccal hygiene what determined that the denture stomatitis was the most opposing lesion. DeCS: DENTAL PROSTHESIS REPAIR; ORAL HEALTH; STOMATITIS, DENTURE; DIAGNOSIS, ORAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY, DESCRIPTIVE.