Canadian Dental Patients with a Single-Unit Implant-Supported Restoration in the Aesthetic Region of the Mouth: Qualitative and Quantitative Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs)

Kelvin I Afrashtehfar,S Ross Bryant,Kensuke Igarashi

doi:10.3390/data6080090

Abstract

This article contains quantitative and qualitative patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) collected from nine dental patients, with a single-implant in the maxillary anterior region of the mouth, recruited after obtaining consent documents. The quantitative data were obtained from participants’ demographics, frontal extraoral digital photographs, intraoral scans (IOS) of the maxillary arch, and self-administered questionnaires (where patients judged the overall, appearance, function, and comfort of their single-implant-supported crowns). Objective single-implant aesthetic index mean scores (Pink Esthetic Score/White Esthetic Score [PES/WES]) were obtained after two experienced calibrated clinicians analyzed the photographs and the three-dimensional models generated from the IOS. The self-administered questionnaires used a visual analogue scale (VAS) to obtain the patients’ subjective perceptions. The qualitative data were obtained from in-depth, semi-structured one-to-one interviews. The transcriptions from audio-recorded interview data were managed and coded, with the aid of a Computer-Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis Software (CAQDAS). These data were stored in a public repository that can be easily downloaded from a Mendeley data repository (DOI: 10.17632/sv8t6tkvjv.1).

Highlights

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The parameters for data collection were adult dental patients who were at the maintenance stage after receiving an implant-supported single-crown in the upper front region of the mouth, and who lived in the province of British Columbia (Pacific Coast Region-West Coast), Canada
Since the study aimed to provide a deeper understanding of the phenomenon, this study required a holistic assessment using an inductive qualitative method

Summary

Introduction

Publisher’s Note: MDPI stays neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. The participation of nine Canadian dental patients was incentivized, and all data was anonymized. The data can serve for further investigation of the expectations, perceptions, and satisfaction with the treatment outcomes, of patients who had a missing tooth replaced by an implanted single crown in a university setting in Western Canada.

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