Kuz V. Comparative assessment and prediction of outcomes of prosthetic rehabilitation with removable dentures having bases made from different materials.

This dissertation is devoted to the study of physical and mechanical properties of various denture base materials and the assessment of short-term and long-term outcomes of prosthetic rehabilitation with complete removable dentures having bases fabricated from different materials. Based on the data obtained by the preclinical study of three denture base materials, we have selected two new materials, «Vertex ThermoSens» and «Deflex Acrylato», for further clinical trial as they have demonstrated satisfactory physical and mechanical characteristics and bio-inertness. The standard denture base material «Ftoraks» is used as a reference material. 59 fully edentulous patients of advanced and elderly age (60 years and over), who applied to the dental clinic for having new complete removable plate denture fabricated for the upper and lower jaws, received prosthetic rehabilitation. The results of the investigation of prosthetic rehabilitation outcomes with complete removable dentures for the edentulous patients based on their subjective assessment of adaptation to denture wearing, on indices of masticatory efficiency restoration by I.S. Rubinov, and on the integral assessment of masticatory muscles by electromigraphy have demonstrated that «Vertex ThermoSens» and «Deflex Acrylato» denture base materials are more acceptable in comparison with the standard material «Ftoraks» used as a reference material in this research. The denture base material «Vertex ThermoSens» has been found out to possess the best characteristics.