The Risk Analysis of Malnutrition by Tooth Loosing Among Elderly

Introduction: Tooth loss occurs mostly in the elderly, especially of occlusal support can cause disruption mastication process and swallowing food, so chewing function is reduced causes elderly to prefer soft foods that are easy chew. The lack fulfillment all nutrients needed by body as risk malnutrition increases.Purpose: To evaluate analysis tooth with mal-nutrition based on Mini Nutritional Assessment Social House Tresna Werdha Kasih Sayang Ibu, Batusangkar. Materials Methods: Cross-Sectional approach. total number sample was 46 elderly. Eichner index measured loss, besides MNA questionnaire estimated malnutrition. Data done using Chi-square Results: 76.1% have (all support) 69.7% at 85.7% statistical result analyzed obtained p-value <0.005. Conclusion: There a who experience