title: Relationship between impacts of complete denture treatment on daily living, satisfaction and personality profiles.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To investigate the association between satisfaction with conventional complete denture prostheses (CDs), impacts of CDs on daily living and personality profiles.
  
  
  METHODS
  Fifty-six patients (28 males and 28 females; mean age 53.79 ± 7.762 years) with fitted upper and lower removable CDs were recruited for this study. Clinical success of CDs was assessed according to specific clinical criteria. The dental impact on daily living questionnaire (DIDL) was used to measure satisfaction with CDs and their impacts on daily living. NEO five factor inventory (NEO - FFI) was used to measure patients' personality profiles. Pearson correlation test and regression models were used to analyze the collected data.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Females were more satisfied with appearance and less satisfied with eating and scored higher on neuroticism, and lower on extraversion and openness personality domains (p < 0.05). Older patients were more satisfied with appearance and less satisfied with oral comfort and general performance (p < 0.05). Neuroticism, extraversion, openness and agreeableness personality profiles could predict and had significant relationship with CDs impacts on daily living and satisfaction with CDs.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Psychological profiles (e.g. neuroticism, extraversion, openness and agreeableness) might play a role and explain CDs impacts on daily living and patients' satisfaction with their oral status and CD treatment, therefore, might be used to predict satisfactory outcomes of CD treatment. In this regard, technical aspects of CDs are less essential when the prosthesis is clinically successful.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Psychological factors may play a role and also provide valuable information for the prediction of satisfactory outcomes of complete denture treatment.
authors.affiliation: Department of Prosthodontics, AL-Quds University, Jerusalem, Israel.
authors.forename: Raed O Abu
authors.initials: RO
authors.lastname: Hantash
authors.forename: Mahmoud K
authors.initials: MK
authors.lastname: AL-Omiri
authors.forename: Mohammad Abu
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Yunis
authors.forename: Najla
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Dar-Odeh
authors.forename: Edward
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Lynch
mesh_terms: D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D000367:Age Factors; D003824:Denture, Complete / Q000523:psychology*; D004955:Esthetics, Dental; D005120:Extraversion, Psychological; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008409:Mastication; D008875:Middle Aged; D009497:Neurotic Disorders; D017060:Patient Satisfaction; D010551:Personality; D011594:Psychometrics; D011788:Quality of Life; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012737:Sex Factors; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires