Nivel de satisfacción en pacientes portadores de prótesis parcial removible.

Abstract

Introduction: Removable partial prostheses are specific treatments that serve for the rehabilitation of patients with partial edentulism. These can cause pain, psychosocial problems, decreased masticatory and phonetic function, generating patient rejection. The level of satisfaction refers to the level of complacency of patients wearing dental prostheses and is associated with the patient's ability to adapt to the dental prosthesis. Objective: Determine the level of satisfaction in patients with removable partial dentures in the UCSG dental clinic period A-2024. Materials and methods: A qualitativequantitative study, with a non-experimental, longitudinal and descriptive design, was carried out with a sample of 34 patients with bimaxillary or monomaxillary removable partial prosthesis, in an age range from 20 years to 75 years. both male and female gender before the use of PPR and 6 months after the use of PPR. The GOHAI survey was the instrument used to determine the level of satisfaction, where it evaluates the dimensions: physical, phonetic, psychosocial and pain and discomfort problems in its 12 questions, which were measured by the Likert-type index. Results: The youngest patients with monomaxillary RPP obtained a high level of satisfaction before and after. Conclusions: Patients before using PPR turned out to have a high level of satisfaction, after 6 months of using PPR they turned out to have a very high level of satisfaction.