The Cornell Medical Index as a prognostic aid for complete denture patients

The influence of personality on patients’ satisfaction with existing and new complete dentures

“…The sample in this study is similar in size to that of Bolender et al 2 and yielded comparable findings. The results of this study are also in agreement with those of Guckes et al, 4 of Nairn and Brunello 3 and of Al Quran et al 8 Examination of the smile plots of the results shows interesting differences between the different intervention times.…”

“…This is a new finding, though it confirms the suspicion raised previously. 11 In addition, Bolender et al 2 found no correlation between post-insertion visits and personality, indirectly supporting this result. A negative association between patient satisfaction and Neuroticism scores is not surprising.…”

“…1 Bolender et al investigated possible effects of patient personality on satisfaction with new complete dentures and number of post-insertion visits in 402 patients and found a significant association between high neuroticism scores and patient dissatisfaction. 2 No association was found between neuroticism and post-insertion visits.…”

Patients’ expectation and satisfaction with complete denture before and after the therapy

“…Our results corroborate the findings of de Siqueira et al 12 , while other studies 9, 12 contradict our findings. A possible explanation for the divergence is that the satisfaction with complete denture is a complex phenomenon 7, 18 which could be fulfilled by previous comprehensive awareness of anatomical features and, particularly, by an insight into patients' physiological and psychological capacities [21][22][23] .…”

An investigation of factors influencing patients’ satisfaction with new complete dentures using structural equation modelling

“…16 A structural equation model using data from the large study that this paper is also based on, demonstrated powerful relationships between denture quality, quality of residual alveolar ridge anatomy and patient wearing of dentures and use of dentures for eating. 17 Personality factors have been associated with reduced satisfaction in a number of studies [18][19][20][21][22] but not in others. 11,12,23 Personality has been analysed separately for the subjects in this study and neuroticism was found to be significantly associated with patient satisfaction with new dentures but not with usage of the dentures.…”