Abstract
Aim: To investigate the relationship between patients self perceived satisfaction and basal seat characteristics in edentulous patients attending a teaching hospital in Lagos.Materials and Methods: Consecutive edentulous patient seen for 6 months in Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Lagos were recruited for this longitudinal study. The data collected were basal seat characteristics and self perceived satisfaction.Results: A total of 30 patients were seen but only 24 complied with the study protocol. The use of objective assessment in classifying maxillary residual ridge showed that there was a significant association (P=0.045) between the ridge and self perceived satisfaction. There was no significant association between self perceived satisfaction and shape of mandibular ridge, palatal vault and vestibular depth.Conclusion: There was a significant association between shape of maxillary residual ridge and self perceived satisfaction. Objective preclinical assessment of residual ridge may help to project satisfaction and determine treatment option.
Highlights
Tooth loss is frequently associated with anatomical changes that include marked reduction in height and width of alveolar bone as a result of bone resorption.[1]Most of these changes occur in the first year following extraction but it continues throughout life.[1,2] The morphological changes which take place after tooth loss could either be extra oral or intra oral
Classification of residual ridge using visual assessment did not demonstrate a significant association between maxillary residual ridge and satisfaction (P =0.065)
Our findings show that objective assessment of mandibular residual ridge classified most subjects as having V shape residual ridge
Summary
Tooth loss is frequently associated with anatomical changes that include marked reduction in height and width of alveolar bone as a result of bone resorption.[1]. Most of these changes occur in the first year following extraction but it continues throughout life.[1,2] The morphological changes which take place after tooth loss could either be extra oral or intra oral. The major extra oral change is facial collapse which includes cheek sinking in and reduction in vertical facial height.[3] Intraoral changes include thinning and atrophy of mucosa covering alveolar ridges, shallow sulci, flabby ridge forms, shallow palatal vault and forward and lateral spread of tongue.[3]
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