Mehmood Hussain, Syed Ahsan Ali, Syed Imran Hassan, Nazia Yazdanie, Mohammad Yawar Khan, Moin Khan.
DIABETES MELLITUS PATIENTS; Immediate dentures.
Professional Med J Jan ;22(11):1409-14.

To observe Quality of Life (QoL) in diabetes mellitus patients after fabrication of immediate dentures. Setting: Department of Prosthodontics in Hamdard University Dental Hospital, Karachi. Period: Two years from October 2011 to September 2013. Methodology: Thirty patients with established diagnoses of diabetes mellitus reported. In this study by purposive non-probability sampling technique. In this study patients were selected, male and female patients were 24 and 6 respectively with the age range of 22- 74 years. After getting consent Questions mention in OHIP-14 were asked from the patients on 1st visit and 2 months later after fabrication of immediate denture to assess the QoL of in these patients. Data was obtained after using SPSS-version 19. For analysis Wilcoxon Signed Ranks Test was applied to get results. Probability level of P< 0.05 was considered statistically significant. Results: There was marked improvement in different domains of QoL in diabetes mellitus patients after fabrication of immediate dentures, most of the patients were pleased with their prosthesis. Three patients had complained of pain on buccal side which was corrected by trimming the overextended flange of their denture. All patients had improvement in phonetics (P value 0.01), better choice of food (P value 0.00), eating ability (P value 0.01), decrease embarrassment (P value 0.08) and self-assurance (P value 0.025). However, effect of immediate denture on variable like tension was not advantageous having P-value of 0.157. Conclusion: By fabrication of immediate dentures to diabetes mellitus patients, QoL can be markedly improved in such patients.

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