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Late results of treatment with partial dentures
Author(s) -
CARLSSON GUNNAR E.,
HEDEGÅRD BJÖRN,
KOIVUMAA KALERVO K.
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
journal of oral rehabilitation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.991
H-Index - 93
eISSN - 1365-2842
pISSN - 0305-182X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2842.1976.tb00951.x
Subject(s) - dentures , medicine , dentistry , oral hygiene , allowance (engineering) , removable partial denture , bridge (graph theory) , orthodontics , surgery , mechanical engineering , engineering
Summary Ninety‐nine people who were fitted with partial dentures in 1959 were invited to take part in an investigation 13 years later. A questionnaire was answered by fifty‐eight, which means a frequency of 81% if allowance is made for an explainable loss. Of the sixty‐eight partial dentures in these fifty‐eight patients, twenty‐three were still being used, fourteen patients had had their original partial dentures replaced by new ones and three by a fixed bridge, while seven had been replaced by complete dentures. Twenty‐one were no longer used and had not been replaced. Of the fifty‐four patients who originally had a complete upper denture and a partial lower denture, thirty were still available. Following an invitation to take part in a clinical review, twenty‐seven (90%) co‐operated. Most of the patients were in need of treatment (for caries, periodontitis and/or prosthetic treatment). The periodontal injuries were rarely serious. A correlation was found between good oral hygiene and good results of treatment.