2021 Volume 13 Issue 1 Pages 58-61
Patient: The patient was an 85-year-old man who visited our hospital with a complaint of food accumulation on the outside of his dentures, difficulty while speaking, and pain while eating. Based on the medical history and various examinations, his condition was diagnosed as “masticatory disorder and pronunciation disorder caused by incompatibility of upper and lower complete dentures and morphological defect of the polished surface of the denture base.” After improvement in oral hygiene and the alveolar ridges, new upper and lower complete dentures with cast metal were fabricated.
Discussion: Better stability of the new dentures rendered them satisfactory to the patient. Improvement in speech was achieved by palatography. By harmonizing the form of the denture flanges with the surrounding musculature, food accumulation on the polished denture surfaces disappeared. The masticatory score changed from 39.4 at the first visit to 81.1 after wearing the new dentures for 1 month.
Conclusion: After wearing the new dentures for 3 years, the patient is satisfied with the esthetics and function. It is considered that the dentures contributed to improving the patient’s health.
