Both digital and conventional fabrication of complete dentures yield comparable clinical outcome

Results

The systematic review included 572 digitally fabricated complete dentures and 939 conventionally fabricated complete dentures inserted in 1300 patients. Digitally fabricated complete dentures require less clinical time with a lower total cost, despite higher material costs compared with the conventional fabrication technique. Digitally and conventionally fabricated complete dentures were found to have significant effects on mastication efficiency, comfort, retention, stability, ease of cleaning, phonetics, and overall patient satisfaction, as well as social disability, functional limitation, psychological discomfort, physical pain, and handicap.

Digitally fabricated complete dentures are more cost-effective than conventionally fabricated dentures. There are various impacts of conventionally and digitally fabricated complete dentures on PROMs, and they are not better than one another.

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Reference:

Digitally versus conventionally fabricated complete dentures: A systematic review on cost-efficiency analysis and patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs)

In Meei Tew, Suet Yeo Soo, Edmond Ho Nang Pow. Published:November 23, 2023DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.prosdent.2023.10.028

Keywords:

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