TY - JOUR
T1 - Patients' satisfaction with facial prostheses
AU - Wondergem, Marloes
AU - Lieben, George
AU - Bouman, Shirley
AU - van den Brekel, Michiel W. M.
AU - Lohuis, Peter J. F. M.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - We assessed the "impact on wellbeing" and "satisfaction" of patients who had a facial prosthesis (of the ear, nose, or orbit) fitted in The Netherlands Cancer Institute. Patients had either an adhesive-retained or an implant-retained facial prosthesis between 1951 and 2011. We did a cross-sectional survey of 104 patients, then gave a questionnaire to the final study group of 71 (68%), a year or more later. All were satisfied with their prostheses (visual analogue scale (VAS): mean (SD) 8.1(1.5). The implant-retained group were the most satisfied (p = 0.022), and the adhesive-retained group felt more self-conscious (p = 0.013). Three-quarters of all patients said that the prosthesis was not painful and there were no problems with the way it functioned. A well-designed facial prosthesis has obvious benefits, but there were no appreciable differences between the two groups. Each patient must make a careful decision about which type of prosthesis to choose, taking into account the quality of their remaining tissue, the site of the defect, and their general health. (C) 2015 The British Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved
AB - We assessed the "impact on wellbeing" and "satisfaction" of patients who had a facial prosthesis (of the ear, nose, or orbit) fitted in The Netherlands Cancer Institute. Patients had either an adhesive-retained or an implant-retained facial prosthesis between 1951 and 2011. We did a cross-sectional survey of 104 patients, then gave a questionnaire to the final study group of 71 (68%), a year or more later. All were satisfied with their prostheses (visual analogue scale (VAS): mean (SD) 8.1(1.5). The implant-retained group were the most satisfied (p = 0.022), and the adhesive-retained group felt more self-conscious (p = 0.013). Three-quarters of all patients said that the prosthesis was not painful and there were no problems with the way it functioned. A well-designed facial prosthesis has obvious benefits, but there were no appreciable differences between the two groups. Each patient must make a careful decision about which type of prosthesis to choose, taking into account the quality of their remaining tissue, the site of the defect, and their general health. (C) 2015 The British Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved
U2 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bjoms.2016.09.011
DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bjoms.2016.09.011
M3 - Article
C2 - 26508540
SN - 0266-4356
VL - 54
SP - 394
EP - 399
JO - British Journal of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery
JF - British Journal of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery
IS - 4
ER -