Objectives: The aims of this study were toevaluate satisfaction of patients used implantretained overdentures and conventional completedentures, and to investigate the effect ofsociodemographic properties on satisfaction.Materials and Methods: Forty two patients, 27female and 15 male,used implant-retainedoverdentures and conventional complete dentureswere included in this study, who attended toUniversity of Yeditepe, Faculty of Dentistry in2011. A questionnaire was prepared and distrubutedto evaluate the patient satisfaction levels about theirdentures and sociodemographic properties such asage, gender, education, marital and income status.The answers were asked to give as not satisfied,satisfied, very satisfied. Chi-square test and Fisher’sExact Chi-square test were used to analyze thequantitative data. An alpha level of 0.05 was usedfor all statistical analyses.Results: The mean age of the 42 patients(64.3% female, 35.7% male) was 62.26. It wasobserved that patients with higher educational levelprefered implant-retained overdentures, comparedto conventional complete dentures.In theconventionalcomplete denture group, highernumbers of patients were very satisfied with thecleanabilitycompared to implant-retainedoverdenture group. (p=0.039). There was nostatistically significant differences betweenimplant-retained overdentures and conventionalcomplete denture groups with regard to satisfactionlevel of esthetic, chewing, speech, retention andcomfort.Conclusions:It can be concluded thatsociodemographic factors did not affect thesatisfaction of different denture types. The patientswith conventional complete dentures were moresatisfied with the cleanability, compared to implantretained overdentures.
Conventional complete dentures implant-retained overdentures satisfaction.
Amaç: Bu çalışmanın amacı, klasik tam protez
ve implant destekli tam protez kullanan hastaların
memnuniyetlerini değerlendirmek ve demografik
özelliklerin memnuniyet üzerine etkisini
incelemekti.
Gereç ve Yöntem: Çalışmaya, 2011 yılında
Yeditepe Üniversitesi Diş Hekimliği Fakültesi’nde,
alt-üst klasik tam protez ve üst klasik-alt implant
destekli tam protez uygulanan, 27’si kadın ve 15’i
erkek, toplam 42 hasta dahil edildi. Hastalara,
sosyodemografik özelliklerini (cinsiyet, yaş,
ömedeni durum, öğrenim durumu, gelir düzeyi)
içeren ve protezlerinin memnuniyetini
değerlendiren anket formları dağıtıldı. Cevapların,
memnun değilim/memnunum/çok memnunum
şeklinde verilmesi istendi. Niteliksel verilerin
karşılaştırılmasında Ki-Kare testi ve Fisher’s Exact
Ki-Kare testi kullanıldı. Anlamlılık p
Birincil Dil | Türkçe |
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Bölüm | Original Research Articles |
Yazarlar | |
Yayımlanma Tarihi | 31 Ocak 2013 |
Gönderilme Tarihi | 27 Şubat 2012 |
Yayımlandığı Sayı | Yıl 2013Cilt: 16 Sayı: 1 |
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