Can the dietary habits of complete denture wearers be improved through dietary counseling?

Research Project

Project/Area Number	22592165
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	Prosthetic dentistry
Research Institution	Nihon University
Principal Investigator	GUNJI ATSUKO 日本大学, 松戸歯学部, 助手 (80170596)
Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha)	KIMOTO Suguru 日本大学, 歯学部, 講師 (10267106)
Project Period (FY)	2010-04-01 – 2014-03-31
Project Status	Completed (Fiscal Year 2013)
Budget Amount *help	¥4,940,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,140,000) Fiscal Year 2013: ¥520,000 (Direct Cost: ¥400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥120,000) Fiscal Year 2012: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000) Fiscal Year 2011: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000) Fiscal Year 2010: ¥2,860,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥660,000)
Keywords	総義歯装着者 / 食事調査 / 食事指導 / 無作為割り付け臨床試験 / 総義歯
Research Abstract	The dental professional is apt to think that the dietary life of the person of full dentures wearing greatly depends on only the dentures function simply. However, only by the improvement of the dentures function, we cannot expect the improvement in the dietary life. In this study, we examined the effect that it carried out for improvement of dietary life and the dietary intake situation of patients with edentulous jaw to do dietary counselling carried out at full dentures wearing, cooking instruction.As a result, the type of the diet of subjects tended to increase by performing dietary counselling.