ABSTRACT
The objective of 'this study was to determine the frequency of 'complications with complete dentures
A total of 45 completely edentulous patients wearing conventional complete denture for more than one year were included in this study. These dentures were fabricated by private practioners, undergraduate and postgraduate students in dental institutes. The complications associated with these dentures recorded by taking a detailed history and examination of the prosthesis and mouth of the patients. The data were analyzed by SPSS version 20.0
Twenty were females while the remaining 25 were males with mean age of61.06 +/- 9.4 years. The complications observed in the patients with regards to their frequency were; loss of denture retention [80%], developed of ulcers [37. 7%], loss of denture teeth due tofracture [26.6%], fractures of the denture base [22.2%] and denture stomatitis [6.6%]. The difference between males and females were not significant