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Masticatory performance and chewing experience with implant-retained mandibular overdentures . The relationship between masticatory performance and chewing experience has not yet been explored for patients with implant-retained overdentures . Although many relationships have been found between parameters of objective and subjective oral function , the structure of these relationships remain unclear . Therefore , we studied in a randomized clinical trial the relationship between the comminution of an artificial test food , i.e . masticatory performance , and the subjective chewing experience . The trial involved a comparison between two groups receiving implant treatment and one group receiving conventional complete dentures ( CD ) . The implant treatment involved either a mainly implant-supported mandibular overdenture on a transmandibular implant ( TMI ) or an implant-tissue-supported mandibular overdenture on two IMZ implants ( IMZ ) . Masticatory performance as well as chewing experience were substantially better for the implant-retained overdentures compared with the complete denture group . No significant differences emerged between the TMI and the IMZ group . A multiple regression analysis did not provide any comprehensibility in the relationship between masticatory performance and the variables of chewing experience . In the linear structural relation analysis ( LISREL ) no direct relationship was found between masticatory performance and functional complaints mandibular denture . The results show that an improvement in masticatory performance does not imply the same improvement in chewing experience and vice versa .
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Intervention_Educational
implant-retained overdentures
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Intervention_Educational
masticatory performance , and the subjective chewing experience
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Intervention_Physical
implant-supported mandibular overdenture
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Intervention_Physical
transmandibular implant ( TMI )
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Outcome_Physical
masticatory performance , and the subjective chewing experience .
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Outcome_Physical
Masticatory performance as well as chewing experience
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Outcome_Physical
masticatory performance and the variables of chewing experience .
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Outcome_Physical
masticatory performance and
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Outcome_Other
functional complaints mandibular denture
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Outcome_Physical
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Participant_Condition
implant-retained mandibular overdentures .
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Participant_Condition
implant-retained overdentures