MENTAL PRACTICE IN MOTOR LEARNING OF BRUSHING AND PARKINSON DISEASE

Inclusion Criteria

• •Age between 40 and 80 years;
• •Idiopathic PD Clinical Diagnostics according to the Bank of brain London;
• •Patients in stages I to III according to Hoehn and Yahr;
• •Satisfactory communicative and cognitive level checked by the Mini-Mental State Examination;
• •Subject to satisfactory clinical, lying in his home in the care of relatives;
• •Patients who possessed a sextant of the dental arch with teeth.
• •In the control group individuals without neurological disease were included: both sexes at ages similar to the group with PD, satisfactory health, active life, and natural teeth.