Authors: Hotta TH, Coimbra FCT, Rocha MM, Macedo AP, Silva-Lovato CH, Almeida RP, Costa TNQ, Silva EA, Matsumoto W
Background: Nowadays, the use of complete denture remains very large in the world, and is extremely important in the maintenance of the quality of life, especially, for the elderly people.
Purpose: To evaluate the importance of periodically replace old complete dentures in the quality of life, using the OHIP-EDENT questionnaire.
Methods: Twenty-eight complete denture wearers (15 females and 13 males), from 51 to 87 year-old (mean of 66 years), and with the need for maxillary and mandibular prostheses. To evaluate the impact of the initial oral condition on quality of life, the individuals answered the questionnaire and, after 3 months of use of the new complete dentures, the questionnaire was reapplied. The Oral Health Impact Profile (OHIP-EDENT) provided 7-dimensional analysis: functional limitation, physical pain, psychological discomfort, physical disability, psychological disability, social disability and general disability. For each of dimensions scores were assigned according to the individual's response (0 - never, 1 sometimes and 2 - always) and the sum of points of all questions indicated the OHIP index.
Results: The data were submitted to the normality test (Shapiro-Wilk) and presented a non-normal distribution, followed by Wilcoxon's test for comparison of OHIP EDENT indicators, before and after prosthetic rehabilitation. Statistical results showed significance at 5% (p≤0.5) indicating that new complete dentures improved all dimensions evaluated.
Conclusion: It can be concluded that with the new complete denture there was an improvement in the quality of life of the complete denture wearers.
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