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Patients’ Satisfaction with Full Dentures of Varying Age
Asja Čelebić
; Zavod za mobilnu protetiku Stomatološki fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Melita Valentić-Peruzović
; Zavod za mobilnu protetiku Stomatološki fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Jasmina Stipetić
; Zavod za fiksnu protetiku Stomatološki fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Marija Zrna
; Dom zdravlja “Cakovec”, Zubna ambulanta, Čakovec, Hrvatska
Tihomir Kuna
; Zavod za oralnu kirurgiju Stomatološki fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Zdravko Delić
; Zavod za mobilnu protetiku Stomatološki fakultet Sveučilišta u Rijeci, Rijeka, Hrvatska
Sažetak
The aim of this study was to evaluate patients' satisfaction with their full dentures of various age and quality and to evaluate patients' satisfaction with denture retention, fonation, chewing ability and the comfort of wearing dentures. Also, the aim was to evaluate the influence of some factors, such as age, sex and the level of education on patients ’ satisfaction with their full dentures and also to evaluate if the age of the present dentures, the number of previous dentures and the number of years of being edentulous have any influence on patient's satisfaction with complete prosthodontic therapy. A total of 222 patients with complete upper and lower dentures took part in this study. There were 73 males and 149 females, between 39 and 89 years old. Patients graded their dentures, depending on the level of satisfaction with their full prosthodontic appliance. They graded their dentures in total by using an analogue-visual scale from 1 to 5 and they also graded retention of their dentures, fonation, mastication, comfort of wearing dentures, etc. Upon the statistical analysis the following conclusions were made: 1. Patients are mostly satisfied with the quality of their full dentures (the distribution of the scores of the patientsy assessments is asymmetrical towards the highest scores in all examined categories). Only 7.2 per cent of the patients are not absolutely satisfied with their dentures (score 1) and the per cent of score 1 + score 2 was only 16 per cent. 2. More than half of the examined patients scored all the examined variables in the best score category (5). The best grades (the biggest percentage of the highest scores) were given to the following variables: retention of the upper full denture 78.4%, fonation 793%, comfort of wearing upper full denture 88.7% and aesthetics 72.1%. Variables withthe worst grades were retention of full lower denture- 14.4% (grade 1) and the comfort of wearing the lower full denture (no pain in the mucosa of the lower denture bearing area) - 11.7% of grades 1. 3. Patients of a higher level of education have higher criteria for the aesthetic appearance than patients with a lower level of education and they assessed their denture aesthetics with lower grades. They also became edentulous at an older age than the patients with a lower level of education. 4. There was no significant difference in patients' assessments of the quality of their complete dentures between the different age groups 5. A greater number of previous dentures, earlier the patients became edentulous and lowly graded retention of the upper full denture. On the contrary, patients with the first full dentures assessed retention of the lower full denture with the worst grades, which point to the longer period necessary for neuromuscular adaptation to the lower full denture than to the upper one.
Ključne riječi
patients' satisfaction; full dentures; analogue-visual scale from 1 to 5
Hrčak ID:
97705
URI
Datum izdavanja:
15.12.1999.
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