パタカゲーム（大工のパタ蔵）口腔機能トレーニング

Oral frailty prevention app. Speak Pa Ta Ka and hit the flowing nails! Daily training is effective for preventing long-term care and improving oral deterioration.

★ Do you know the word frail?
As we get older, our muscles gradually weaken, we have fewer opportunities to go out (interaction with others such as social participation), and we need help and long-term care.
Such a state in which the work of the mind and body becomes weaker with aging is called frailty.
In other words, it is a state between a healthy state and a state requiring nursing care.
As a stage, it goes through a healthy state → pre-frail (pre-weak) → frail (weak) state, and then shifts to long-term care (physical dysfunction).

★ What is oral frailty?
The “small decline” in the mouth, which is difficult to notice, is not properly dealt with, and the decline accumulates, leading to deterioration of oral function and even loss of appetite. (Mouth flail)
Oral frailty is positioned in the pre-frail (pre-weakness) stage of the above stage.
It is said that you can catch the pre-flail condition by checking the condition of your mouth.
Aging is by mouth!
For early detection of frailty, catching oral frailty and not overlooking the slightest deterioration of the mouth are the keys to prevent frailty!
Oral frailty is also said to be related to dementia.

★ What are the symptoms?
When oral frailty reduces the function of the mouth, symptoms gradually appear, such as decreased tongue, spilled food, and increased foods that cannot be chewed.
It should be noted that the deterioration of oral function affects not only the physical deterioration but also the mental and social aspects of the patient.
For example, the increase in foods that cannot be chewed due to tooth loss reduces the desire and interest in food (decrease in mental and physical functions due to oral frailty), and eating out with family and friends, which had been fun until then, became a hassle. You will only eat at home (decrease in sociality due to oral frailty).
It's especially easy to fall into such a state under the corona.
Such deterioration of mental and physical functions and sociality leads to further progression of oral frailty.

★ What is the cause of oral frailty?
Oral frailty is primarily caused by age-related weakness and tooth loss.
To eat things, you need chewing power (biting power) and swallowing power (swallowing power), but when the muscle strength around the mouth decreases with aging and the number of teeth decreases, these two The power becomes weaker,
Fall into an oral frailty.

Masticatory power is related to the muscles around the mouth and the number of teeth, and there is no significant difference between men and women in the tendency of muscle weakness.
On the other hand, men tend to have a tendency to decrease in swallowing ability due to aging.


・ Changes in hormonal balance (decrease in testosterone)
・ Because the original muscle mass is large, the difference when it decreases becomes large.
・ Muscles descend due to the weight of Adam's apple
・ Less chance to talk (use muscles around the mouth) than women

★ Are you and your family okay? Oral frailty check!
Answer the questions and calculate the total score.

Question 1: Compared to half a year ago, it became harder to eat hard foods. (Yes = 2 points added)
Question 2: I sometimes get rid of it with tea or soup. (Yes = 2 points added)
Question 3: I am using a denture. (Yes = 2 points added)
Question 4: I'm worried about thirst. (Yes = 1 point added)
Question 5: The frequency of going out has decreased compared to half a year ago. (Yes = 1 point added)
Question 6: I can't chew food that is as hard as squid and takuan. (Yes = 1 point added)
Question 7: I brush my teeth only once a day. (Yes = 1 point added)
Question 8: I haven't seen a dentist for over a year. (Yes = 1 point added)

* If you have lost your teeth, it is important to use dentures properly and treat them so that you can eat hard foods.
* Talk to your dental clinic or dental hygienist.

Evaluation of total score
0-2 points The risk of oral frailty is low
3 points: There is a risk of oral frailty
4 points or more High risk of oral frailty

★ Pataca measurement / long-term care prevention related app
There are various gymnastics such as Pataca gymnastics, health gymnastics, healthy mouth gymnastics, Aibe gymnastics, Patacara, etc., but we will introduce apps related to those trainings.

(1) Pataca (pataca measurement)
Https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.patakkar&hl=ja

(2) Pataca Master (oral function training)
Https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.master&hl=ja

(3) Staring contest exercise (facial muscle training)
Https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.niramekko&hl=ja

(4) Piro Piro Challenge (breathing training, Piro Piro whistle)
Https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.piropiro&hl=ja

--------------------------------------------
What is the Toothpaste Warrior Shikaiderman Project?
--------------------------------------------
This is a project to spread the importance of improving dental and oral health in an easy-to-understand manner through dental characters. Brush your teeth daily to eat with your own teeth for the rest of your life.