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A Cross-Sectional Study of Iraqi Patients to Determine the Degree of Satisfaction with Dental Implants

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CENTRAL ASIAN JOURNAL OF MEDICAL AND NATURAL SCIENCE, 4 (5): 790-802 (September 2023)

Abstract

Background: Although the last decade in Iraq has seen a significant increase in patients seeking both governmental and private dental centres for the purpose of undergoing dental implant procedures, most studies have focused solely on examining the impact of treatment on those who have already undergone the procedure. Objective: Our paper presents a cross-sectional study that examines the assessment outcomes of patient satisfaction with dental implants. Patients and methods: The study analysed the clinical and demographic characteristics of patients who received dental implants via databases. Using SPSS, we analysed the data and grouped the 93 cases using K-nearest neighbour and linear regression models. The patients included both male and female genders and were between the ages of 30-60 that including from many Iraqi hospitals between 16th Jun 2022 to 25th March 2023. For patients who underwent delayed or immediate implants, we recorded all dental implant outcomes in databases and analyzed the cumulative survival rate in months. Results and Discussion Our findings identified age as a significant risk factor, with most patients who underwent dental implants being above 50 years old. Gum disease was the most common cause for dental implants (33.4%), followed by tooth decay (22.6%) and other causes. In the long term, smoking significantly impacts patients, with 54.8% being smokers and 45.2% non-smokers. Our results indicate that the complication rate after dental implantation was 16.2%, with infection being the highest risk factor for post-surgery patients. This had an impact on survival rates, which remained stable for patients who underwent delayed implants for the first 80 months. However, patients who received immediate implants experienced a drop in survival rates during the last 70 months.

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