Abstract: PURPOSE: To investigate teeth defect, loss, repair needs of the elderly people in Jiading district, Shanghai, provide basis for government's policy of oral health care. METHODS: Three thousand two hundred, sixty65-74years old people were selected by cluster sampling in Jiading, Anting, Nanxiang, Jiading district, Shanghai. They were investigated for oral heath situation.824people with teeth defect, loss were randomly chosen to investigate the needs of repair, knowledge of oral health. EpiData software was used for descriptive analysis. RESULTS: Among the selected people, 80.4% had teeth defect, 4.8% had teeth loss. The repair rate of teeth defect, loss was60.8%, 91%, respectively.28% were fixed denture, 39.5% were removable denture, 24.4% were fixed, removable denture, 8.2% were full denture. There was no gender difference in teeth loss, repair. The main reason for not being repaired was high cost, accounting for32%, followed by difficult for hospital registration, fear of tooth extraction pain, complications, mobility difficulties. As for restoration demand, 29.7% demand dental implants, 64.8% demand porcelain teeth, 43.2% demand hospital visits, 51% demand private clinics, 25.5% demand self-payment, 42.2% demand partially reduced price;32.3% hoped restoration free of charge;18.2% of them had a score of more than3points.15.5% were between0-3scores, 66.3% were below0score. CONCLUSIONS: The situation of teeth deficiency, repair of the elderly in Jiading district of Shanghai is facing serious challenges. The elderly people are lack of knowledge about teeth restoration. Therefore, it is necessary for the government to increase popular science education of oral health care, invest money to improve the situation of dental restoration, improve oral health level of the elderly

Key words: Elderly people, Teeth defect,Teeth loss, Restoration of teeth