DIABETES MELLITUS PATIENTS

Objectives: To observe Quality of Life (QoL) in diabetes mellitus patientsafter fabrication of immediate dentures. Setting: Department of Prosthodontics in HamdardUniversity Dental Hospital, Karachi. Period: Two years from October 2011 to September 2013.Methodology: Thirty patients with established diagnoses of diabetes mellitus reported. In thisstudy by purposive non-probability sampling technique. In this study patients were selected,male and female patients were 24 and 6 respectively with the age range of 22- 74 years. Aftergetting consent Questions mention in OHIP-14 were asked from the patients on 1st visit and2 months later after fabrication of immediate denture to assess the QoL of in these patients.Data was obtained after using SPSS-version 19. For analysis Wilcoxon Signed Ranks Testwas applied to get results. Probability level of P< 0.05 was considered statistically significant.Results: There was marked improvement in different domains of QoL in diabetes mellituspatients after fabrication of immediate dentures, most of the patients were pleased with theirprosthesis. Three patients had complained of pain on buccal side which was corrected bytrimming the overextended flange of their denture. All patients had improvement in phonetics(P value 0.01), better choice of food (P value 0.00), eating ability (P value 0.01), decreaseembarrassment (P value 0.08) and self-assurance (P value 0.025). However, effect of immediatedenture on variable like tension was not advantageous having P-value of 0.157. Conclusion: Byfabrication of immediate dentures to diabetes mellitus patients, QoL can be markedly improvedin such patients.