METHOD FOR ASSESSING HYGIENIC STATE OF REMOVABLE DENTURES IN PARTIAL ADENTIA Russian patent published in 2014 - IPC A61C13/00 A61B5/00 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: invention refers to medicine, namely to preventive and orthopaedic dentistry, and can be used in assessing the hygienic state of the oral cavity in the patient with removable dentures suffering partial adentia. An inner surface of the denture is coloured. A graphic mesh is applied. It is photographed, and a denture hygienic state index is determined. The graphic mesh is applied with using templates enabling dividing the inner surface of the denture into two segments. The inner surface of the denture is photographed with using a camera with a focusing centre lying along a median palatine suture at a mid-distance between a maxillary frenulum and a distal edge of the for maxillary dentures and along the line drawn between central incisors in the middle between a mandibular frenulum and a posterior edge of the denture, for the mandibular dentures. The dental deposit is assessed in each segment as 0 to 4 by the 4-point system, while the hygiene index is calculated by formula.

EFFECT: by using set of templates, method enables assessing the hygienic state of any removable dentures with partial adentia.

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