An Assessment of Complete Denture Changes from Try in to Clinical Insertion- A Retrospective Study

Abstract

Complete denture is a dental prosthesis that replaces the entire dentition and associated structures of maxilla
and mandible. Its Function is to restore esthetics, mastication and speech.Various outcomes in the treatment
of complete denture in edentulous patients involve a complex array of different factors which determine the
accuracy of complete denture. Due to various reasons complete dentures may encounter changes from trial
stage to insertion. This change may occur due to processing or handling .The present study aims to assess
the differences in complete denture from try in anterior teeth position to insertion anterior teeth position with
regard to midline shift and plane deviation and using chi square test statistical significance was observed.
The study was carried out in Saveetha dental college, Chennai, patients data was collected from inhouse
digital data bank. The data of documented evidence treated by the undergraduate students were retrieved and
analysed for differences. The study reveals that there are incidences which had changes from the try in step
to clinical insertion step with regard to anterior teeth.