Behavior of oral diseases in older adults.

A descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out with the objective of describing the behavior of oral diseases in older adults of the Family Medical Clinic 2 of the Amancio municipality in the period from September 2020 to February 2021.The universe was constituted by 98 older adults of the CMF2 and the sample was constituted by 62 older adults who presented oral diseases, a non-probabilistic intentional sampling was carried out. The methods used were theoretical and empirical and the techniques used to obtain the information were the interrogation and the examination of the oral cavity carried out on each patient, the processing of the information was computerized and the results were presented in tables and texts, as a summary measure the absolute frequency (Nº) and relative frequency (%) were used for the qualitative and quantitative variables, the results were compared with national and international studies, highlighting the aspects of interest, which allowed conclusions to be reached and recommendations to be issued. It was possible to reach the conclusion that the predominant age range was 65 to 69 years.