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In the conformation of the industrial society, the professions emerged as a fundamental movement of the division of labor, of occupational and class stratification. Its maintenance and importance over time has been sustained through professionalization processes for the production of specialized knowledge that distinguishes it from other occupations and at the same time gives it autonomy and social recognition to give legitimacy and permanence in function of society. The medical profession has served as an ideological apparatus on the part of the State to control and dominate society based on health needs through professionals who exercise reduced power relations to secondary agents, perpetuating class differences. The professions in general have suffered the ravages of neoliberal policies and the medical profession is no exception. The reality of health services circulates among neglected hospitals, lack of budget, poor care, lack of material, human resources and medicines, bureaucratic procedures, and other structural shortcomings that subsume the indicators and administrative procedures to the professional's practice. En la conformación de la sociedad industrial, las profesiones surgieron como un movimiento fundamental de la división del trabajo, de estratificación ocupacional y de clases. Su mantenimiento e importancia a través del tiempo se ha sostenido mediante procesos de profesionalización para la producción de conocimiento especializado que le distinga de otras ocupaciones y al mismo tiempo le brinde autonomía y reconocimiento social para dar legitimidad y permanencia en función de la sociedad. La profesión médica, ha servido como aparato ideológico por parte del Estado para controlar y dominar a la sociedad basados en las necesidades de salud a través de profesionales que ejercen relaciones de poder reducidos a agentes secundarios perpetuando las diferencias de clases. Las profesiones en general han sufrido los estragos de las políticas neoliberales y la profesión médica no es la excepción. La realidad de los servicios de salud circula entre hospitales descuidados, falta de presupuesto, mala atención, falta de material, de recursos humanos y medicamentos, trámites burocráticos, y otros faltantes estructurales que subsumen a la práctica del profesional a indicadores y gestiones administrativas.

The aim of this study was to identify the relationship between sociodemographic factors and self-perceived oral health (SPOH) among the elderly. A cross-sectional, exploratory examination of 150 elderly subjects whose ages ranged from 60-86 was conducted. These subjects used the Geriatric Oral Health Assessment Index (GOHAI) to assess their SPOH. In addition, sociodemographic data were collected from study participants. Data were analyzed using Student's t-test, the examination of odds ratio (OR) of logistic regression analysis, the chi-square test, and analysis of variance (ANOVA). The mean decayed, missing, and filled teeth (DMFT) index for the study participants was 20.1 ± 5.8; 21.3% of subjects were edentulous, and 69.3% of subjects wore removable dentures. 62.7% of study participants had poor SPOH (defined as GOHAI score