Irum Sikander, Muhammad Aamir Ghafoor Chaudhary, Salman Ahmad, Muhammad Farooq Kamran, Sara Amir Khan.
Frequency of short term post-insertion complaints in conventional complete denture wearers treated by undergraduate students.
Pak Oral Dental J Jan ;36(4):680-2.

The objective of this study was to determine the frequency of various post-insertion complaints in patients wearing complete dentures that had been fabricated by undergraduate students of the institute. One hundred patients (66 males and 33 females) were included in the study who had been wearing their prostheses for more than 6 months. Details of age, gender, medical history and denture history were obtained. Post-insertion complaints, as reported by the patients, were recorded on a proforma. The collected data was statistically analyzed using SPSS version 23. It was found that 60% of the subjects had complaint of their dentures being loose; 20% denture ulceration, 10% had pain and generalized discomfort, 25% reported that they had low masticatory efficacy, 8% of the patients had problems in speech while only 3% patients had fracture of denture bases. It was concluded that on the basis of frequency of occurrence, loss of retention, low masticatory efficiency and mucosal ulceration were the main complaints of the complete denture patients being treated by the undergraduate students.

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