A Comprehensive Systematic Review In Search Of Evidence for Pragmatic Altercations in Simplified Denture

Abstract

Aim: To explore the evidence available to evaluate if simplified dentures could be as effective as the conventional complete dentures. Materials and Methods: A total of 1,482 articles were obtained using keywords in a Boolean search operator in the PubMed search engine, Google Scholar and Cochrane Library. Duplicates were removed and the remaining articles were subjected to a title analysis which yielded a total of 20. Further analysis of the article abstracts led to an exclusion of four articles. The remaining 16 articles were subjected to full text analysis which finally yielded a total of 11 articles. Results: The cumulative results of the meta-analysis for oral health-related quality of life, patient satisfaction and professional quality of denture show no significant difference (P > .05) between conventional and simplified dentures. Conclusion: Based on the available evidence adjusted for the potential literature/geographic bias, we conclude that the conventional procedures in complete denture fabrication such as facebow and gothic arch tracing do not improve the quality of the denture outcome from patients’ perspective and simplified dentures are equally effective as conventional complete dentures.