The experience of pain and patient satisfaction with dental implant-prosthetic treatment
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https://doi.org/10.12923/j.2084-980X/25.3/a.08Keywords:
dental implants, pain, patient satisfactionAbstract
The absence of pain in implant-prosthetic treatment is considered, along with other factors, one of the indicators of treatment success, which undoubtedly translates into patient satisfaction. The aim of this study was the assessment of the influence of pain experienced during implant-prosthetic treatment on the level of patient satisfaction with this kind of treatment. The study was conducted in the Non-Public Health Care Centre “Dental” in Tomaszów Mazowiecki and covered 464 patients of both genders, aged 20-74, who had missing teeth replaced with dental implants. The patients answered the questions included in a written questionnaire. The questions concerned the experience of pain and the level of satisfaction with the received treatment. The study shows that pain was experienced by a little more than 1/3 of all the studied patients during implant placement, and by 81.25% of the respondents after implant placement. The patients who felt pain during and after implant placement would less frequently decide to have missing teeth replaced with this method again, and were more frequently of the opinion that costs and duration of treatment did not reflect their level of satisfaction with treatment in comparison to the patients who did not feel pain. The respondents who experienced pain during implant placement would recommend this treatment method to other people less frequently than the patients who felt no pain. The results indicate that Implant-prosthetic treatment is accompanied with pain experience in a considerable proportion of patients. Pain experienced during treatment affects the level of patient satisfaction and future decisions concerning the choice of this type of treatment. It is necessary to improve peri- and postprocedural analgesia during dental implant treatment.
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