Fouda Shaimaa M, Al-Attar Mohamed S, Virtanen Jorma I, Raustia Aune
Department of Substitutive Dental Sciences, College of Dentistry, Dammam University, P.O. Box 1982, Dammam 31411, Saudi Arabia.
Department of Prosthodontics, Faculty of Dentistry, Alexandria University, P.O. Box 21500, Alexandria, Egypt.
Int J Dent. 2014;2014:635943. doi: 10.1155/2014/635943. Epub 2014 Jul 8.
Complete denture wearers often find it difficult to accept a new denture. Personality traits are among the factors that possibly affect patient satisfaction with a complete denture. Our aim was to investigate the influence of patients' personality on satisfaction with their present denture and after an increase in the occlusal vertical dimension (OVD). Sixty edentulous patients with complete dentures (22 men and 38 women, mean age 66 years, and range 50-75 years) participated in the study. The age of their complete dentures ranged from 5 to 16 years. Patients' personalities were evaluated using the Arabic version of the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire. Their satisfaction with their dentures before and after restoration of the OVD and relining of the mandibular denture was evaluated using two questionnaires (I and II), Patients with a high score of neuroticism were less satisfied with their original dentures and after relining and an increase of OVD compared with patients with an average score in that trait. The personality trait of psychoticism was significant to patients' acceptance of an increase in OVD; that is, patients with a high score were less satisfied with their dentures after increase of OVD than patients with an average score. It is concluded that personality traits affect patients' acceptance of their complete dentures.
全口义齿佩戴者常常觉得难以接受新的义齿。人格特质是可能影响患者对全口义齿满意度的因素之一。我们的目的是研究患者人格对其当前义齿以及咬合垂直距离（OVD）增加后的满意度的影响。60名佩戴全口义齿的无牙颌患者（22名男性和38名女性，平均年龄66岁，年龄范围50 - 75岁）参与了该研究。他们全口义齿的使用年限在5至16年之间。使用艾森克人格问卷阿拉伯语版对患者的人格进行评估。使用两份问卷（问卷I和问卷II）评估患者在OVD恢复及下颌义齿重衬前后对义齿的满意度。与该特质得分平均的患者相比，神经质得分高的患者对其原义齿以及重衬和OVD增加后的义齿满意度更低。精神质人格特质对患者接受OVD增加有显著影响；也就是说，得分高的患者在OVD增加后对义齿的满意度低于得分平均的患者。结论是人格特质会影响患者对全口义齿的接受程度。
