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oral health literacy ohl ability individuals obtain process understand oral health information services allowing make appropriate oral health decisions association ohl tooth loss replacement well understood aimed determine association ohl tooth loss replacement colombia population crosssectional study 384 older adults age 65 89 years pasto colombia carried number lost replaced teeth assessed intraorally sociodemographic prosthetic characteristics collected health literacy dentistry questionnaire used evaluate ohl generalized linear models estimated assess associations independent variables including ohl number lost replaced teeth 224 583 men 160 417 women mean standard deviation sd number lost replaced teeth 2778 403 1253 989 respectively one hundred fifty five 404 individuals full removable dental protheses 122 318 partial removable dental protheses 68 177 fixed prosthetics 36 94 dental implants ohl 3329 659 significantly positively associated number replaced teeth 065 95 confidence interval ci 052078 p 001 lost teeth ohl may foster individuals capabilities replace lost teeth although find associated reduced tooth loss likely tooth loss highly common older population hlrp health literacy research practice 202481e21e28