Keywords
oral rehabilitation
systemically compromised patient
autoimmune disease
complete denture
design
prosthetic management
reservoir
salivary reservoirs
Sjogren’s syndrome
xerostomia
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Abstract
Background: Sjögren’s syndrome is an autoimmune disease that manifests after the age of 45 years and whose incidence increases with age. Symptoms in the oral cavity includes dry mouth or xerostomia. Large number of Sjögren’s patients wear complete dentures due to tooth loss at advanced ages. Objective: To describe the case of a Sjögren’s patient for whom dentures with salivary reservoirs were made to reduce oral symptoms. Methods: Lab tests were conducted to find an optimum denture design with reservoirs. Requirements included: structural resistance, easy placement and removal of reservoir caps to allow cleaning, good esthetics, and containing the greatest amount of artificial saliva. Models were tried in the patient. Results: Several models were tried for both jaws. At the end, the patient reported about easiness to remove caps, absence of nausea, normal phonetics, adequate hygiene, comfort, and partial solution to the problem of xerostomia with an approximate duration of three hours once the reservoir was full. Conclusion: Final prototypes provided the best characteristics of reservoirs and stored the highest amounts of saliva. It is important to conduct clinical controlled trials to confirm the findings of this case.
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