Factors That Affect Oral Care Outcomes for Institutionalized Elderly

Figure 1

Predictive value of the incidence of fever within one year with or without oral care. The solid line indicates subjects who received oral care, and the dotted line indicates subjects who did not receive oral care. For the subjects who received the oral care program, the predictive value for the incidence of fever decreased with the increase in the number of functional teeth. In contrast, for the subject who did not receive oral care, the predictive values for the incidence of fever increased with the increase of number of functional teeth.