Abstract
Introduction: After wearing a complete denture, the patient most care for his/her denture and most maintain a good hygiene habit for long term use of the prosthesis. Even after giving denture care instructions at the denture delivery appointment many patients may not fully understand the instructions. This study was performed to assess the denture hygiene habit and denture care procedure being undertaken by complete denture patients coming for treatment in a private dental college.
 Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted among 140 complete denture wearing patients visiting Department of Prosthodontics, Chitwan Medical College from Sep 2021 to Mar 2022. A questionnaire was prepared and used to collect data which included various questions regarding denture hygiene and denture care being undertaken by patients. Descriptive statistical analysis (frequency and percentage) was performed on the data collected by using SPSS Statistical Software Package (version 21.0).
 Results : A total of 140 responses were included in this study. Out of the patients who responded 52.85% (N=74) were wearing the same denture for less than 5 yrs while 27.85% (N=39) were wearing the denture for more than 5 yrs. Most of them i.e., 73.5% were removing the prosthesis at night time and 61.4% were keeping the denture inside water when removing at night. Out of the participants, 81.42% were cleaning the prosthesis outside of mouth while 18.5% were cleaning the denture both inside and outside of the mouth. All of them were using a toothbrush to clean the denture. More than half (52.14%) of the participants didn’t know for how long they should use complete denture.
 Conclusion: From the responses obtained in this study it can be concluded that the complete denture wearing patients visiting Chitwan Medical College have fair denture hygiene habits as well as fair knowledge on denture care practice.
Highlights
Dental wastes are discarded materials after dental treatment which includes sharp instruments, infectious waste and body fluid, human parts, toxic agents, chemical, plastics body fluid etc. which are hazardous to health if not managed and disposed in proper way
Dental surgeons involving in this study has good academic knowledge of waste management, have positive attitude towards management of such waste and to upgrade knowledge, have good practice and think of better in conjunction with governing bodies
Majority of study population was of young dental surgeon 103(72.5%) with less than three year of clinical experience
Summary
Dental wastes are discarded materials after dental treatment which includes sharp instruments, infectious waste and body fluid, human parts, toxic agents, chemical, plastics body fluid etc. which are hazardous to health if not managed and disposed in proper way. In clinical dental practice many materials are used, which are either reused or discarded. Such discarded materials are considered as dental waste.[1,2] According to world Health Organization 2018, 15% of hospital related waste are hazardous. They become source of contamination and transmit disease.[3] Wires and sharp waste cause injuries to oral structures and become a source of blood borne infections like hepatitis and AIDS.[4,5].
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