A Survey Of Complaints Of Patients Wearing Artificial Complete Removable Dentures
Journal Title: National Journal of Medical and Dental Research - Year 2017, Vol 5, Issue 3
Abstract
Context: To know the various complaints by complete denture wearers to improve the quality of denture. Aims:This study aims to compare patients’ complaints and problems after wearing complete dentures and to check whether patients follow post insertion instructions or not. Settings and Design:Questionnaire based study in a dental institution. Methods and Material: The study was conducted in Department of Prosthodontics in institute of Gujarat, over a period of 4months. The study included 150 complete denture patients wearing complete dentures who reported for follow up during the study time. They were selected randomly with age range of 45-75 years including males and females. The Questionnaire included 23 questions on various post insertion complaints. This questionnaire was approved by the institutional ethical committee. Most commonly encountered complaints were included such as pain while inserting or removing dentures, difficulties in masticating their food, loose dentures, discomfort in speaking, ulceration, restricted space for tongue. Satisfaction regarding fitting, comfort and aesthetics were then compared. Statistical analysis used: The data was analysed using Descriptive statistics like frequency table, percentage and Person’s chi-square test. Results:It was observed that adaptation problems with complete denture (45.15%) were higher than problems related to appearance(38.6%) followed by problems of discomfort(34.27%). Overall 56.7% patients were satisfied with their denture. Conclusions: This study suggested that complete denture patients present with complaints in follow up appointments when there are denture errors. Hence,dental professionals should understand the patients desires from denture and be able to eliminate the complaints to facilitate denture acceptance by the patients.
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Jimmy PAtel, Narendra Nirmal, Deeksha Sharma
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