Table 2.

Dental status of examined elderly respondents

Number of remaining natural teeth	Number of respondents (percentage of all respondents)	Prosthetic rehabilitation	Number of respondents (percentage of edentulous or dentate respondents, respectively)
0 natural teeth (edentulousness)	119 (46%)	Do not use denture Use only one dentur Use both dentures	60 (50.5%) 48 (40.3%) 11 (9.2%)
1–9 natural teeth	69 (26.6%)	Do not use dentures	59 (42.1%)
10–19 natural teeth	49 (18.9%)	Use dentures	66 (47.2%)
20 or more natural teeth	22 (8.5%)	Do not need prostheses (sufficient number of natural occluding teeth)	15 (10.7%)