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Awareness, attitude, and expectations toward dental implants among removable prostheses wearers
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AL-Dwairi, Ziad N., El Masoud, Bilal Mohammed, AL-Afifi, Sanaa A., Borzabadi-Farahani, Ali and Lynch, Edward (2014) Awareness, attitude, and expectations toward dental implants among removable prostheses wearers. Journal of Prosthodontics, Volume 23 (Number 3). pp. 192-197. doi:10.1111/jopr.12095 ISSN 1059-941X.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jopr.12095
Abstract
Purpose: To assess removable denture patient awareness, expectations, and source of information about dental implants (DIs).
Materials and Methods: Three hundred patients [150 removable partial denture (RPD) wearers and 150 complete denture wearers (CDWs)] attended the removable prosthodontic clinic at Faculty of Dentistry, Jordan University of Science and Technology. Patients were evaluated using a pilot-tested, 21-question questionnaire.
Results: Ninety-six percent of participants were aware of DIs, with no difference between CDWs and RPD wearers (p > 0.05). The participants’ friends and relatives were the main source of information (63.4%), followed by dentists (32.4%). Improvement in function was the predominant reason (55.7%) for patients to consider DIs. Fear of unknown side effects was the major factor in preventing patients from choosing DIs (11.7%), followed by high cost (9.7%) and surgical risk (8.7%). Approximately 89% had no information or were poorly informed about DIs. Over two-thirds of patients did not know about the care (78.3%) of DIs, causes of DI failure (69.7%), or DI duration of service (80.7%). Only 24.7% knew that DIs would be anchored to the jawbone; however, 27.3% and 56.7% of CDWs and RPD wearers, respectively, preferred (p < 0.05) to have their teeth replaced with DIs. High costs were considered the major disadvantage of DIs in 45% of participants, followed by fear of surgery (27.3%), and long treatment times (24.7%).
Conclusions: There was a high awareness about DIs among removable denture patients; however, this awareness was associated with a low level of accurate information.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Prosthodontics | ||||||||
Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc. | ||||||||
ISSN: | 1059-941X | ||||||||
Official Date: | April 2014 | ||||||||
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Volume: | Volume 23 | ||||||||
Number: | Number 3 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 192-197 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1111/jopr.12095 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
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