Muhammad Aamir Ghafoor Chaudhary, Khezran Qamar, Sajid Naeem.
Screening and treatment of completely edentulous patients on the basis of prosthodontic diagnostic index and the level of patient satisfaction.
Pak Oral Dental J Jan ;36(3):503-6.

The objective of study was to determine the patient satisfaction after screening and treating the completely edentulous patient’s on the basis of Prosthodontics diagnostic index. It can be used as screening method to allocate the cases on the basis of complexity. In this way it will lessen the incidence of retreatment. It was a case series (descriptive). The study was carried out at Prosthodontic Department of a Private Dental College, Lahore from 16th April 2015 to September 2015. In the present study the completely edentulous patients were screened at the outpatient department of Prosthodontics according to the Prosthodontics diagnostic index. The patients were classified and referred to respective operators on the basis of level of complexity of the case. All the clinical procedures of the case were done by the single operator and at the time of insertion of the denture, patient satisfaction was assessed according to the visual analogue scale. Patients with more than 75% satisfaction in all variables i.e. retention, stability, support, aesthetics, comfort, chewing and speech were considered as satisfied patient. The results of the present study showed that the overall satisfaction rate after screening and treating the edentulous patients on the basis of Prosthodontics diagnostic index was 53%. It was concluded that by adopting Prosthodontic diagnostic index, accurate diagnosis and the basis for appropriate treatment procedure can be carried out, resulting in a successful patient care.

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