| Abstract [eng] |
This study is the first to collect and summarize older ethnic Lithuanian city of Vilnius residents and maxillofacial anthropometric data on the dynamics of the overall physical dimensions of age-related dynamics to analyze the factors that influence the physical characteristics and facial anthropometric dimensions of variation. Our maxillofacial study is valuable for anthropologists, dentists, oral and maxillofacial surgeons, plastic surgeons, endocrinologists, geneticists, public health professionals. Our data point to the city of Vilnius Lithuanian nationality elderly population characteristic facial features, it will serve useful data to forensic experts, comprehensively investigating the unknown identity of the person. Purpose The purpose of the study is to examine the 45-year-old and older Vilnius residents of Lithuanian nationality face and some common physical characteristics of aging data, to determine the dependence on the overall health of the mouth and teeth in the social and economic factors. Conclusions 1. Face aging variation general tendency does not differ between the genders of 45-years and older aged Lithuanian ethnic population of Vilnius residents. Vilnius residents face anthropometric data differ significantly across all age and gender groups. Men's facial anthropometric dimensions of data are larger than females. Facial anthropometric data characteristic of the left and right sides shows the asymmetry. 2. Education and chronic diseases have significant impact on oral health. The participants with the higher level of education had statistically significant (p <0.001) more teeth than people with lower education levels. Higher education individuals had an average of 17.4 ± 9.3 remaining teeth, and persons trained baseline had 7.1 ± 7.3 teeth. The dependence of remaining teeth number on marital status was not found. The participants with chronic diseases had less teeth than the rest of participants, average of remaining teeth was 11.1 ± 9.1 and those having no chronic diseases had 13.8 ± 10.4 teeth. 3. 45 years aged and older Lithuanian ethnic population Vilnius residents focus on oral health and hygiene is not sufficient. The approach of older Lithuanians to oral health and hygiene is different depending on age, sex and social status. 36% of all participants clean their teeth twice a day, 34.3% clean once a day and those who doesn't clean teeth is 26.7% of all subjects. The participants cleaning teeth twice a day, or more than three times a day on average had the most remaining teeth, e.g. 15.3 ± 9.9 and 14.7 ± 10.1 respectively, and those who doesn't clean teeth only 9.4 ± 8.5 remaining teeth. Women of all ages had brushed their teeth more often than men. 4. 34 % of Vilnius population over 45 years old never had a dental prosthetic treatment of any kind, although they possibly need such a treatment, and this situation is unsatisfactory. There is a 20 % of edentulous persons among 45 year old and older ethnic Lithuanian population of Vilnius city. Among participants with the higher level of education was statistically significant more persons with prostheticaly treated teeth than in participants with the lower education e.g. 72.7 % and 44.7 %, respectively. Between those living in the family were detected significantly more individuals with prosthetic treated teeth than among unmarried and divorced persons e.g. 70.1 % and 54.3 %. 5. The number of remaining teeth or presence of dental prosthesis has significant effect on facial proportions. Face changes of the participants without dental prosthetic treatment were more individual, characterized by greater variation in the data. The participants without dental prosthetic treatment had an increase of anthropometric data differences between the age groups for both men and women. |
