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A within-subject comparison of mandibular long-bar and hybrid implant-supported prostheses: psychometric evaluation and patient preference.

Abstract：

:Although it has been shown that patients are more satisfied with prostheses supported by implants than with conventional dentures, there have been few direct comparisons of the various designs of implant-supported prostheses. This within-subject crossover clinical trial was designed to compare two forms of removable prostheses which are frequently prescribed for the edentulous mandible: a long-bar overdenture supported by 4 implants and a two-implant hybrid overdenture. Sixteen completely edentulous subjects were given a new maxillary conventional denture: Ten of them received the mandibular long-bar prosthesis first and six the hybrid. After a two-month adaptation period, psychometric measures of various aspects of the prostheses and physiological tests of masticatory efficiency were carried out over three weeks. The mandibular prostheses were then changed and the procedures repeated. At the end of the study, subjects were asked to choose the mandibular prosthesis that they wished to keep, and final psychometric measures were taken. In this paper, the results of the psychometric assessment and patient preference are presented. Subjects assessed factors such as general satisfaction, quality of life, stability, retention, comfort, esthetics, ease of cleaning, speaking, and chewing, and how well-chewed foods were before being swallowed. Most of the factors except ease of cleaning and speaking were rated significantly better with long-bar overdentures than with hybrid ones. These results are consistent with the fact that all subjects chose long-bar overdentures, reporting stability, ease of chewing, and comfort as the most important factors influencing their choice. These results suggest that, although subjects assign high ratings for most factors to hybrid overdentures, they find long-bar overdentures to be significantly more stable, comfortable, and easier for chewing.

journal_name

J Dent Res

journal_title

Journal of dental research

authors

Tang L,Lund JP,Taché R,Clokie CM,Feine JS

doi

10.1177/00220345970760100901

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1997-10-01 00:00:00

pages

1675-83

issue

eissn

0022-0345

issn

1544-0591

journal_volume

pub_type

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A within-subject comparison of mandibular long-bar and hybrid implant-supported prostheses: psychometric evaluation and patient preference.