PEEK versus Metallic Attachment-Retained Obturators for Patient Satisfaction: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

 The aim of the study was patients' satisfaction evaluation and radiographic evaluation of the terminal abutments of attachment-retained maxillary obturators with metal framework versus milled polyetheretherketone (PEEK) framework in the management of maxillectomy cases.

Materials and methods

 Eighteen participants were randomly divided into three parallel groups (n = 6). Participants of the PEEK group received attachment-retained obturators with milled PEEK framework, the metal group received an attachment-retained obturator with a metallic framework, and the conventional group received conventional clasp-retained obturators with a metallic framework (Control group). The evaluation included was radiographic evaluation and patients' satisfaction in this stud

SUBMITTER: Sharaf MY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8890929 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature