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BELONI, Wanessa Borges; VALE, Hugo Felipe do  e  TAKAHASHI, Jessica Mie Ferreira Koyama. Assessment of the satisfaction level and quality of life of dental prosthesis users. RFO UPF [online]. 2013, vol.18, n.2, pp. 160-164. ISSN 1413-4012.

Given the importance of offering proper rehabilitation for patients assisted in a dental polyclinic we have sought their opinion regarding installation and use of removable dental prosthesis manufactured by Dentistry students. Objective: this study aimed to assess the satisfaction level and quality of life of partially or totally edentulous patients rehabilitated by graduate students. Materials and method: thirty-two patients were called two months after the completion of the rehabilitating prosthetic treatment for an appointment of prosthesis proservation. At this time the patients were assessed through the OHIP-EDENT questionnaire and visual analogue scale (VAS) to assess criteria for quality of life, esthetics, phonetics, masticatory function, stability, comfort, palate alteration, and pain associated with the prosthesis installed. The results were submitted to t test with 5% significance level. Results: the patients rehabilitated with complete dentures presented higher impact on quality of life (p = 0.01), and reported better stability (p = 0.01) and masticatory function (p = 0.01) than patients rehabilitated with partial dentures. There was no difference for criteria of comfort, esthetics, phonetics, palate alteration, and pain (p > 0.05). Conclusions: the type of prosthesis may influence the rehabilitation prognosis. Moreover, patients rehabilitated with complete dentures reported more perception of improvement in quality of life after rehabilitation.

Palavras-chave : Dental prosthesis.; Patient satisfaction.; Quality of life..