A case control study to investigate the effects of denture wear on residual alveolar ridge resorption in edentulous patients.

Objectives: To investigate the effect of complete denture wearing on residual ridge resorption in edentulous patient compared with edentulous patient who never wore dentures.

Methods: Patients who had been edentulous for at least five year who had never worn dentures successfully were matched to edentulous denture wearing control patients. To control for factors possibly associated with alveolar ridge resorption patients who had been rendered edentulous in one arch before the other, smokers, those taking steroids, bisphosphonates, with histories of autoimmune diseases, diabetes mellitus or osteoporosis at any time during their period of edentulousness were excluded.

Dimensional stability of complete denture permanent acrylic resin denture bases; A comparison of dimensions before and after a second curing cycle.

The purpose of this study was to measure deformation of mandibular complete denture permanent bases after secondary curing. A cast of a flat mandibular edentulous ridge was duplicated ten times. A wax base was laid on the original cast, two wax sprues were attached and an overcast was made.

An investigation of factors influencing patients' satisfaction with new complete dentures using structural equation modelling.

Objective: To investigate possible relationships between patient and clinical factors and patient satisfaction with new complete dentures.

Methods: Patients attending King's College London Dental Institute, Guy's Hospital, London, for new complete dentures were recruited. Relevant history was recorded and the edentulous mouth and existing dentures, where present, were examined at the beginning of treatment.

The influence of personality on patients' satisfaction with existing and new complete dentures.

Objective: To investigate the influence of patient personality on satisfaction with and use of complete dentures.

Methods: Patients attending a dental school for replacement of existing complete dentures completed a Personality Questionnaire and quality of existing complete dentures was assessed. After the first post-insertion visit quality of new dentures was assessed.

Investigation of new complete denture quality and patients' satisfaction with and use of dentures after two years.

Objectives: To investigate if clinical quality of new complete dentures predicts patient satisfaction with and usage of those dentures two years after insertion in the same way that it did initially and three months after insertion.

Methods: Four hundred and seventeen patients recruited to a denture outcome study two years previously were surveyed. In each case aspects of denture quality had previously been rated according to a validated method at the first post-insertion visit and patients had completed a postal questionnaire three months after denture insertion.