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. 2019 Jun 15;1:100002. doi: 10.1016/j.bioflm.2019.100002

Table 1.

Patient denture hygiene demographics.

Healthy Disease
N 82 (62.6%) 49 (37.4%)
Male 26 (31.7%) 20 (40.8%)
Female 56 (68.3%) 29 (59.2%)
Mean Age 71.6 68.2
Median Age 72 70
Mean Age of Denture 4.5 4.4
Complete dentures 61 (74.4%) 28 (57.1%)
Partial dentures 21 (25.6%) 21 (42.9%)



Denture/Oral Hygiene
Excellent 16 (19.5%) 5 (10.2%)
Good 49 (59.8%) 25 (51.0%)
Poor 17 (20.7%) 19 (38.8%)



Denture cleaning
once/day 24 (30.0%) 18 (37.5%)
≥ twice/day 56 (70.0%) 30 (62.5%)



Sleeping with denture
No 43 (52.4%) 15 (30.6%)
Yes 39 (47.6%) 34 (69.4%)