What is it about?
A study to determine how patients feel about and experience their removable partial dentures
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Why is it important?
Patients know there are such options as removable partial dentures and they think that all their missing teeth must be replaced with these. What they do not know is that it is not necessary to replace all lost teeth. More so, those who have not been exposed to removable dentures, cannot understand that these prostheses may not always be as expected, that is, they may have trouble with functioning or even with esthetics.
Perspectives
I think it is important to publish this kind of work, but if I must do this study again, I would do it differently with a different cohort, with a different tool (which I found hard to work with), and with a more structured approach (such as specific patients who have specific teeth missing).
Professor Saadika Begum Khan
University of the Western Cape
Read the Original
This page is a summary of: Impact of Removable Partial Dental Prostheses on the Oral Health-Related Quality of Life of a South African Cohort with Varied Distributions of Missing Posterior Teeth, Journal of Prosthodontics, October 2017, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/jopr.12692.
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