Patient Satisfaction and OHRQoL In Removable Versus Fixed Implant Prostheses

Assessment Of Patient Satisfaction and Oral-health Related Quality of Life In Completely Edentulous Patients Receiving Removable Implant Overdentures Versus Fixed Implant Overdentures: A Randomized Clinical Trial

Objectives to evaluate the oral health-related quality of life and patient satisfaction in completely edentulous patients, when restored by maxillary and mandibular fixed (screw-retained) or removable telescopic retained implant supported prosthesis. 19 patients were randomized to receive either a fixed or a removable maxillary and mandibular full arch implant prosthesis. They were then asked to answer the OHIP-14 and a patient satisfaction questionnaire at 2 weeks, 3, 6 and 12 months post-prosthetic insertion.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Completely Edentulous Patients
• Intervention / Treatment: Procedure: maxillary and mandibular screw retained hybrid prostheses supported by 4 implants; Procedure: maxillary and mandibular telescopic retained overdentures supported by 4 implants

Detailed Description

Interventions

General operative procedures:

Once the eligibility criteria were fulfilled in a patient, new complete maxillary and mandibular dentures were fabricated for this patient to allow for prosthetically driven implant placement. 4 implants were placed interforaminally so that they were parallel to each other. If the patient had an existing satisfactory denture, that was delivered at least six months ago, it was evaluated for retention, fit, support, stability, occlusion and esthetics. New and old dentures were later used for constructing the scan appliances.

The patients were randomly assigned into two groups with an allocation ratio 1:1. Simple randomization was done by preparing sequentially-numbered, opaque, sealed envelopes, that contained two-times folded cards with the treatment group written inside. Accordingly, the patients were assigned either to group T (control treatment/ telescopic retained implant supported removable overdentures) or group S (test treatment/ screw retained implant supported fixed prosthesis).

The intervention arm : Engaging (Internal hex) cylindrical, plastic patterns (Octa plastic cylinder, multi unit abutment, Red, Dentis, Daegu -Korea) were used to construct the primary copings of the telescopic prosthesis.The finished primary copings were scanned using a lab scanner (Shera Echo-scan 7. Dental Wings, Montreal-Canada). This was necessary to design and to mill the wax pattern of the secondary copings using CAD/CAM technology (Dental Wings Software, Dental Wings, Montreal -Canada). Secondary coping was designed to properly fit to the primary coping. The framework was then tried in. At that time it was ready for its intra-oral luting to the secondary copings.

the control treatment: Once adequate fit of the framework of the hybrid prosthesis was achieved, the wax of the trial denture was converted into heat-cured acrylic resin using conventional packing and flasking techniques. The prosthesis was finished, polished and screwed in the patient's mouth.

Lack of blinding of the operator, the participants and the assessor (patient) due to the obvious dissimilarity between the treatment arms, could have created performance and assessment bias. In an attempt to decrease the performance bias, randomization was delayed until the abutments were connected. When the prosthesis was delivered to the patient, they were requested to answer OHIP-14 and patient satisfaction questionnaires 2 weeks after prosthetic insertion, then 3, 6 and 12 months later.

The aim of this RCT was to evaluate patient satisfaction and oral-health related quality of life in completely edentulous patients receiving removable implant overdentures versus fixed implant hybrid restorations.

Data were statistically described in terms of mean +/- standard deviation (+/- SD), median and range. Comparison of ordinal variables between the study groups was done using Mann Whitney U test for independent samples. Within group comparison of the ordinal data was done using Friedmann test to detect significant differences between time in periods. This was followed by Wilcoxon signed rank test for paired comparisons. Two sided p values less than 0.05 was considered statistically significant. Additionally, a correlation between relevant domains of the OHIP-14 and the patient satisfaction questionnaires was done using Spearman rank correlation test. All statistical calculations were done using computer program IBM SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Science; IBM Corp, Armonk, NY, USA) release 22 for Microsoft Windows

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 19
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Egypt
  • Manial
    • Cairo, Manial, Egypt, 12911
      • Faculty of Dentistry

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 40 years to 70 years (Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: Male

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Completely edentulous male patients with an age range from 40- 70 years.
2. Patients with a HbA1c equal to or less than 7
3. All patients should have normal maxillo-mandibular relationship (Angle class I).
4. Patients should have maxillary and mandibular ridges at least 7mm in width and 13 mm in height in the interforaminal areas and in the esthetic zones (premolar to premolar regions), respectively. This accommodated a pre-planned implant size of 3.7mm x 10 or 11mm.
5. The maxillary and mandibular ridges should be covered by keratinized attached mucosa at least 5mm in width.
6. An interarch space between the edentulous maxillary and mandibular ridges should not be less than 22 mm to accommodate the planned maxillary and mandibular implant-supported prostheses. This was confirmed by mounted diagnostic casts.
7. Patients who were cooperative and who were psychologically and mentally stable as revealed from the initial interview with the patients were considered eligible.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Females were excluded on purpose to prevent failures associated with osteoporosis and to avoid gender variability which definitely affects the results of patient satisfaction and OHIP.

  2. Patients requiring hard or, soft tissue grafting of the proposed implant sites.

  3. Heavy smokers (more than 10 cigarettes / day) or patients with para-functional habits like clenching or bruxism were excluded. This was important to decrease the risk of implant failure.

  4. Patients with temporo-mandibular joint disorders were considered ineligible because of the expected occlusal disturbances.

  5. Patients with systemic disease that might contra-indicate implants placement or affect osseointegration e.g. uncontrolled diabetes.

  6. Patients who took chemo-or radiotherapy or any drug that might counter-affect the healing process or the quality of bone.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Treatment
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Fixed implant supported prosthesis; the prosthesis is an all-on-four prosthesis composed of a hybrid prosthesis. a metal framework, acrylic resin denture base and acrylic resin teeth	Procedure: maxillary and mandibular screw retained hybrid prostheses supported by 4 implants; Framework of the hybrid prosthesis is waxed using plastic copings attached to multiunit abutments. once the framework is finished , bite is recorded, teeth are set up and the waxed up prosthesis are tried in. IF accepted the wax is eliminated the wax up denture is converted inti heat cured acrylic resin
Active Comparator: Removable implant supported prosthesis; the prosthesis is an all-on-four prosthesis composed of a telescopic retained overdenture, both primary and secondary copings are custom made. the secondary copings are conncetd via a metal framework	Procedure: maxillary and mandibular telescopic retained overdentures supported by 4 implants; The wax of the trial denture was converted into heat-cured acrylic resin using conventional packing and flasking techniques. The prosthesis was finished, polished and screwed in the patient's mouth. Engaging (Internal hex) cylindrical, plastic patterns (Octa plastic cylinder, multi unit abutment, Red, Dentis, Daegu -Korea) were used to construct the primary copings of the telescopic prosthesis.The finished primary copings were scanned using a lab scanner (Shera Echo-scan 7. Dental Wings, Montreal-Canada). This was necessary to design and to mill the wax pattern of the secondary copings using CAD/CAM technology (Dental Wings Software, Dental Wings, Montreal -Canada). Secondary coping was designed to properly fit to the primary coping. The framework was then tried in. At that time it was ready for its intra-oral luting to the secondary copings.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
patient satisfaction	questionnaire. The patient satisfaction questionnaire is composed of 14 questions concerned with esthetics, speech, mastication, operative and prosthetic procedures, incidence of complications, pre-operative instructions, total time interval, cost, operator, hygienic procedures, overall experience as well as the willingness to repeat or refer others for the procedure.	2 weeks after prosthetic insertion- 1 year

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
oral health related quality of life	OHIP-14 scoring	2 weeks after prosthetic insertion- 1 year

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Iman Abd-ElWahab Radi, PhD
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Amira kheidr, masters, Cairo University; Study Director: Amr El Khadem, phd, Cairo University; Study Chair: Samira Ibrahim, phd, Cairo University

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): November 1, 2017
• Primary Completion (Actual): September 30, 2018
• Study Completion (Actual): August 28, 2019

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: December 24, 2020
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: January 1, 2021
• First Posted (Actual): January 5, 2021

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): March 10, 2021
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: March 8, 2021
• Last Verified: March 1, 2021

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Stomatognathic Diseases; Mouth Diseases; Tooth Diseases; Mouth, Edentulous
• Other Study ID Numbers: 151017

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: No

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No