Survey of Hepatitis B virus infection and risk factors among pregnant women at public hospital in Ethiopia

Eswaran, A. Jagadeeshwari, Rathika Rai, B Eswaran, Hari Ramachandran

Scholar Science Journals - International Journal of Biomedical Research · 2016 · 12 citations · 0 references

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Purpose:The aim of this clinical study was to assess the satisfaction of patients who received conventional complete denture from under graduate students in a teaching institution for one academic year from May 2014 to April 2015.Material and Methods: Satisfaction statuses from 100 elderly south Indian patients wearing conventional complete dentures made by under graduate students in an academic institution were evaluated.The evaluation was done based on the selected questionnaires from Oral Health Impact Profile (OHIP) regarding their esthetics, function, and comfort level with their dentures.Results: Men were more overall satisfaction of their dentures (79.2%) than women (65.4%).Independent samples T-Test to compare mean VAS scores between satisfied and not satisfied subjects, a highly statistically significant relationship noted in esthetic VAS and comfort VAS (p=0.009). Conclusion:Within the limitations of this study quality of the denture directly correlated with denture satisfaction.The results of this study were more number of patients was satisfied with their conventional complete denture made by undergraduate students monitored by group of faculties.