Clinical assessment of common patient complaints with complete dentures.

The purpose of this study was to investigate relationships between patient complaints with complete dentures and several factors such as age, gender, medical status and denture faults. Six hundred patients who received new dentures were assessed three months after insertion of the dentures. Patient complaints were scored according to their answers to specific questions. Denture quality was recorded by one prosthodontist using a validated classification of aspects of denture quality. No significant relationship was found when age, gender, and medical status were compared with patient complaints. Statistically significant relationships were observed between denture construction faults or the condition of the patient's denture bearing mucosa and patient complaints.