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Subject n° Gender Age
Hearing status by questioning
Adaptation
to the dental situation Phase 1 (days)
Adaptation
to the dental situation Phase 2 (days)
90 81 193 49 -
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8 137 41 - 130 96 34 56 83 - 198 69 -
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Z: -1.148
Adaptation
to the dental situation Phase 3 (days)
Speech, OMF and OHRQoL in OD treatment in the mandible
included in the results. Table 1 displays detailed patient information. 18 patients where tested on average 85.95 days (SD: 48.23) after receiving their new conventional denture. On average 86.60 days (SD: 56.54) after insertion of the two mandibular implants, 15 subjects were tested with a provisional connection of the overdenture to the implants. Finally, on average 87.95 days (SD: 62.34) after the overdenture was actively connected to the implants, 19 subjects were evaluated (Figure 1). Dropout, was related to time and logistic issues. The statistical analyses only includes the records of the patients of whom there were data in both measurements, pairwise.
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Table 1. Subject information at intake.
1F44 Normal 2F56 Normal 3F71Normal172 4F62Normal55 5M57Normal48 6F56Normal56 7M55Normal-
8 M
9 M
10 M
11 M
12 M
13 M
14 F
15 F
16 F
17 M
18 M
19 F
20 F
21 F
48 40
61 Disturbed 88 51 Normal 36 64 Normal 40 72 Normal 98 62 Disturbed 115 56 Normal 76 60 Disturbed - 79 Disturbed - 73 Normal 185 61 Disturbed 103 63 Normal 69 66 Normal 179 85 Normal 70 76 Disturbed 69
140 162 - 141 130 42 - 41 20 94 112 47 46 221 54 208 43 41 49 57 23
Z: -0.839
Difference between ‘normal hearing’ and Z:-1.725 ‘disturbed hearing’ group
p:0.085
p:0.251
p:0.401
The denture treatment was performed by two experienced and calibrated faculty members. To prosthetically be able to make an ideal overdenture, an ideal presurgical condition, in terms of facial height, aesthetics and maximal fit of the denture was necessary. A new prosthesis was made to have this ideal situation and be able to convert this prosthesis to the final overdenture.
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