Evaluation of Patients' Satisfaction with Their New Dentures.

• Sato Masayuki

  The First Department of Prosthodontics, Faculty of Dentistry, Tokyo Medical and Dental University

• Yatabe Masaru

  The First Department of Prosthodontics, Faculty of Dentistry, Tokyo Medical and Dental University

• Ai Minoru

  The First Department of Prosthodontics, Faculty of Dentistry, Tokyo Medical and Dental University

• Wakabayashi Noriyuki

  The First Department of Prosthodontics, Faculty of Dentistry, Tokyo Medical and Dental University

• Nakamura Kazuo

  The First Department of Prosthodontics, Faculty of Dentistry, Tokyo Medical and Dental University

Bibliographic Information

Other Title

• 新たに装着した部分床義歯に対する患者の満足度の評価

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relation between clinical variables and patients' satisfaction with their new removable partial dentures. Fifty-three patients (35 females: mean age: 58.8 and 18 males: mean age: 60.5 years) completed the clinical questionnaire and underwent the psychometric measurements regarding various aspects of their new removable partial dentures using visual analogue scales (VAS). The clinical questionnaire concerned gender, age, denture arch (maxilla or mandible), and years of denture experience. VAS items were aesthetic, pain, comfort, stability, speaking, eating, and general satisfaction. Patients expressed less satisfaction with comfort, aesthetic, and speaking items of their dentures than stability and pain items, suggesting that the patients were likely to remain unsatisfied regarding these three items even though the dentists judged the dentures functioned well. Female patients expressed significantly less satisfaction with all VAS items of their dentures than males. The younger patients tended to express less satisfaction with the eating item of their dentures than the older patients.

Journal

• Nihon Hotetsu Shika Gakkai Zasshi

  Nihon Hotetsu Shika Gakkai Zasshi 43 (5), 871-876, 1999

  Japan Prosthodontic Society

Keywords

• removable partial denture
• visual analogue scale
• patients' satisfaction

Details

• CRID: 1390282679386532608
• NII Article ID: 10008174582
• NII Book ID: AN00197911
• DOI: 10.2186/jjps.43.871
• ISSN: 1883177X
• ISSN: 03895386
• ISSN: http://id.crossref.org/issn/03895386
• Web Site: http://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jjps1957/43/5/43_5_871/_pdf
• Web Site: https://search.jamas.or.jp/link/ui/2000077042
• Text Lang: ja
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