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 Fig 2. Pre-operative stage with conventional denture with full palatal coverage (A); Immediately after one-stage implant surgery with abutments and healing caps perforating the soft tissues (B); Connection of the implants with a titanium milled bar after a 4 months healing period (C); Top view of the final overdenture without palatal coverage (D). © 2018 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
test setup (camera, evaluation form, subject and test items) was identical during each evaluation moment. The evaluation method used for this study is based on Van Lierde et al. (2011).30 The assessment consisted of a perceptual evaluation of articulation, patient’s satisfaction with oral health and satisfaction with speech, and OHRQoL. The assessment took approximately 20 minutes and was recorded with a digital video camera recorder (Sony Corporation, DCR-SR75E).
The assessment of articulation characteristics was performed by using a picture naming test (PNT) based on the protocol used in Van Borsel (1996).36 The subject was asked to name 135 different pictures of ordinary objects and actions presented in colour on a white background. The speech sample is designed so that all Dutch single sounds and most of the consonant clusters are present. The consonants and consonant clusters were placed in all possible syllable positions in the words. The evaluation included a phonetic inventory and phonetic analysis. A sound was considered to be present in the inventory when at least two instances of the production were found. This means that if a sound was produced at least two times in a disordered way the disordered sound was present in the inventory. The recording was evaluated independently by two speech-language pathologists (EF and EB). One SLP was blinded for the






























































































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