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Overview of clinical outcomes of the three study groups.
We aimed in this PhD thesis, to give a detailed overview of the trajectory of speech, oromyofunctional behavior, satisfaction and OHRQoL for three different kinds of overdenture treatments:
Study group paper 1: Twenty-one fully edentulous patients received mandibular overdenture retained on a bar connecting 2 titanium dental implants. Dr. Carine Matthys (EC/2014/1231)
Study group paper 2: Twenty-one patients receiving an overdenture on a titanium milled bar connecting the four implants in the edentulous maxilla. Dr. Maarten Glibert & Ron Doornewaard (EC/2015/0338)
Study group paper 3: Thirty fully endentulous patients received treatment of the edentulous maxilla with complete horse-shoe overdentures on 5-6 MDI’s. Dr. Luc Van Doorne (EC/2014/1253)
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Overall the periodontal and prosthodontic outcome revealed good implant survival, good bone stability over time and limited number of complications in all research groups 62,63. The third group, described clinically by Van Doorne et al. in several papers 71,72 included fragile patients with compromised bone condition. This project is presenting an innovative approach in a very difficult patient group, hence explaining why during initial healing more failures were encountered. As a consequence 2 out of 31 patients were losing the functional support of the denture and were considered as dropouts during follow-up. Table 1 gives an overview of the most important results regarding the periodontal and prosthodontic outcome.
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