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Association of removable partial denture use with oral and systemic health

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From the limited literature available, it appears that RPDs can possibly improve quality of life, and this is relevant in the era of patient-centred care.
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This article is published in Journal of Dentistry.The article was published on 2011-11-01. It has received 155 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Oral hygiene.

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Tooth loss, chewing ability and quality of life.

TL;DR: It is observed that the chewing disability produces a significant and negative impact over oral-health related QoL and both, poor Qo L and chewing disability are related with the decrease of the number of natural teeth.
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Removable partial dentures: The clinical need for innovation

TL;DR: The purpose of this review was to assess the current state of and future need for prosthetics such as RPDs for patients with partial edentulism, highlight areas of weakness, and outline possible solutions to issues that affect patient satisfaction and the use of R PDs.
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Self-perceived changes in oral health-related quality of life after receiving different types of conventional prosthetic treatments: a cohort follow-up study.

TL;DR: The higher the clinical impairment felt by patients, the higher the increase in OHRQoL after rehabilitation, and metal-based removable partial dentures are the most predictable in terms of patient satisfaction.
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Bonding of acrylic denture teeth to MMA/PMMA and light-curing denture base materials: The role of conditioning liquids

TL;DR: The results indicate that MMA/PMMA based denture base resins provide reliable and durable bond strength to acrylic denture teeth.

Oral Biofilms: Development, Control, and Analysis.

TL;DR: This perspective provides a general understanding of biofilm development, a description of emerging chemical and biological methods to control oral biofilms, and an overview of high-throughput analytical approaches to analyzeBiofilms.
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Oral care reduces pneumonia in older patients in nursing homes.

TL;DR: This work investigated whether oral care lowers the frequency of pneumonia in institutionalized older people and found that oral care improves the likelihood of avoiding pneumonia in these people.
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Will there be a need for complete dentures in the United States in 2020

TL;DR: The clinical implications are twofold: First, practicing dentists will find that a sizable minority of the patient population will continue to need complete denture services; and second, if training in complete dentures prostheses is eliminated from the dental education curriculum, millions of patients will be forced to seek dentures services from alternative providers.
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Tooth Retention and Tooth Loss in the Permanent Dentition of Adults: United States, 1988–1991

TL;DR: Data from Phase 1 of the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III) provide the most current estimates of the prevalence and distribution of tooth retention and tooth loss in the United States.
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Denture plaque and adherence of Candida albicans to denture-base materials in vivo and in vitro.

TL;DR: The review strongly supports the suggestion that adherence of C. albicans to denture-base materials in vitro is related to the hydrophobicity of the organism.
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