Assessment of the Quality Of Life and Patients’ Satisfaction in Egyptian Patients Wearing Facial Prostheses | ||
| Egyptian Dental Journal | ||
| Article 35, Volume 64, Issue 4 - October (Fixed Prosthodontics, Dental Materials, Conservative Dentistry & Endodontics), October 2018, Pages 3873-3881 PDF (335.38 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/edj.2018.79363 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Mohamed Y. Abdelfattah1; Tareq Mohamed Nabil2 | ||
| 1Lecturer of Prosthodontics, faculty of Dentistry, Tanta University, Egypt. | ||
| 2Lecturer of pediatric Dentistry, Preventive Dentistry and Dental Public Health, faculty of Dentistry, Suez Canal University, Egypt. | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Objectives: The aim of this study was to assess patients’ satisfaction and Quality of Life with facial prostheses through a special designed questionnaire. Material and Methods: 120 patients using facial prostheses retained either by chemical adhesives or bone anchorage implant for at least 6 months were asked to answer a twenty questions questionnaire through a cross-sectional survey. This questionnaire covered the appearance, retention means and effectiveness, awareness, self-confidence, difficulty of placement and removal, cleaning, restriction of social actions, pain and inflammation of tissues, and advice of the method to other patients. Visual analogue scale (VA S) was used to show patient response. The mean of the answers was converted into a percentage to symbolize the satisfaction index. Results: Wearing facial prostheses made most of patients happy (mean (SD) 9.4 (1.54)). The most satisfied patients was those who had facial prosthesis retained by implants (p = 0.025), and additional self-awareness was experienced in those retained by adhesives (p = 0.012). 72% of patients experienced no pain or troubles with the prosthesis during function. Both implant and adhesive retained prostheses have noticeable advantages without the presence of statistically considerable differences between them. Conclusions: The results showed that use of extraoral prostheses retained by adhesive or by bone anchorage implant provided a high level of satisfaction among patients. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Facial prosthesis; patient satisfaction; quality of life | ||
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