DIABETES MELLITUS PATIENTS

IMMEDIATE DENTURES

Abstract

Objectives: To observe Quality of Life (QoL) in diabetes mellitus patients
after fabrication of immediate dentures. Setting: Department of Prosthodontics in Hamdard
University Dental Hospital, Karachi. Period: Two years from October 2011 to September 2013.
Methodology: Thirty patients with established diagnoses of diabetes mellitus reported. In this
study by purposive non-probability sampling technique. In this study patients were selected,
male and female patients were 24 and 6 respectively with the age range of 22- 74 years. After
getting consent Questions mention in OHIP-14 were asked from the patients on 1st visit and
2 months later after fabrication of immediate denture to assess the QoL of in these patients.
Data was obtained after using SPSS-version 19. For analysis Wilcoxon Signed Ranks Test
was applied to get results. Probability level of P< 0.05 was considered statistically significant.
Results: There was marked improvement in different domains of QoL in diabetes mellitus
patients after fabrication of immediate dentures, most of the patients were pleased with their
prosthesis. Three patients had complained of pain on buccal side which was corrected by
trimming the overextended flange of their denture. All patients had improvement in phonetics
(P value 0.01), better choice of food (P value 0.00), eating ability (P value 0.01), decrease
embarrassment (P value 0.08) and self-assurance (P value 0.025). However, effect of immediate
denture on variable like tension was not advantageous having P-value of 0.157. Conclusion: By
fabrication of immediate dentures to diabetes mellitus patients, QoL can be markedly improved
in such patients.