THE ORAL CAVITY FLUID AND MUCOSA CONDITION IN MENTAL PATIENTS BEING ON PSYCHIATRIC INPATIENT TREATMENT, WHO USE REMOVABLE DENTURES

The article is devoted to prothesis area’s mucosa and alveolar prosesses investigation in mental patients using removable dentures.

318 patients were examined and conclusion was made that the usage of removable dentures in mental patients leads to stomatopathies, which are characterized by chronic inflammation of the oral cavity mucosa and increase of alveolar processes atrophy.