ASSESSMENT OF PHONETIC ADAPTATION OF DENTAL PATIENTS AFTER TREATMENT WITH COMPLETE REMOVABLE PROSTHESIS

Background. As a result of teeth loss, a complex of factors arises that leads to changes in the dental system and impaired speech of the patient. Speech is an important communicative function, and assessing its intelligibility allows us to evaluate the result of prosthetic treatment. It is necessary to ensure unimpeded movement of the tongue, lips, cheeks and to fill in the missing components of the sound-producing system to restore phonetics. The optimal method of restoring complete absence of teeth is treatment with complete removable plate dentures made of acrylic plastics. Adaptation to this design over time restores the functions of sound pronunciation and the digestive system. The adaptation process depends not only on the patient’s abilities, but also on the quality of the manufactured structure. The discrepancy between the prosthetic bed and the base of the orthopedic structure is manifested by a violation of fixation and stabilization, which leads to pain. Aim. To evaluate the dynamics of the phonetic adaptation process of patients after the application of a complete removable prosthesis. Materials and methods. Application of phonetic control according to W. Wright and logopedic exercise “Drawing”. Results. During the study, the results were obtained that patients of groups II, III and IV improved their initial indicators, while group III increased their indicators by 25%. On average, the groups that followed the recommendations improved their results by 19.4%. Conclusions. According to the results obtained, the exercises used help patients with removable plate prostheses to adapt to them faster and accelerate the restoration of sound reproduction.