Evaluation of the Effect of Functional Contouring of the Palatal Vault of Maxillary Complete Denture on Clarity of Speech Sounds in Edentulous Patients: An In Vivo Study

Background: The articulatory system, which consists of the tongue, lips, teeth, hard palate, and soft palate, is a component of phonetics, the study of speech sounds. Speech sounds are negatively impacted by the lack of teeth and surrounding tissues in edentulous people. Phonetics has not gotten the...

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Main Authors: Sonal Jain, Manimegalai, Bhavin Purohit, Reshma Amin, R Arun, Deepika R Pai
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Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2024-12-01
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Online Access:https://journals.lww.com/10.4103/jpbs.jpbs_940_24
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author Sonal Jain
Manimegalai
Bhavin Purohit
Reshma Amin
R Arun
Deepika R Pai
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Bhavin Purohit
Reshma Amin
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Deepika R Pai
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description Background: The articulatory system, which consists of the tongue, lips, teeth, hard palate, and soft palate, is a component of phonetics, the study of speech sounds. Speech sounds are negatively impacted by the lack of teeth and surrounding tissues in edentulous people. Phonetics has not gotten the same level of attention as denture mechanics and aesthetics, despite notable developments in these areas. The purpose of this research is to increase speech clarity in edentulous individuals by contouring the palatal vault of maxillary full dentures. Materials and Methods: Sixty edentulous individuals, who spoke Tamil or English well and were between the ages of 45 and 75, were chosen. Speech sounds from each individual were captured both before and after the maxillary full dentures’ palatal vault was functionally contoured using visible light cure acrylic resin. For a quantitative evaluation, spectrograms were used to examine the speech samples. Results: For most patients, functional contouring of the palatal vault markedly enhanced speech sound quality. The spectrogram analysis’s arbitrary results showed that most participants’ voice clarity had improved by 30% and that the time it took patients to attain clear speech after having a denture had been significantly reduced. Conclusion: The research comes to the conclusion that edentulous patients’ speech clarity is improved by functionally contouring the palatal vault using visible light cure acrylic resin in maxillary full dentures. By using this technique, patients are more satisfied with their dentures and the adaption time is shortened.
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spelling doaj-art-94cd8ec1f2ec4cb9b5156b86dafc518b2025-01-13T10:01:53ZengWolters Kluwer Medknow PublicationsJournal of Pharmacy and Bioallied Sciences0976-48790975-74062024-12-0116Suppl 4S3512S351410.4103/jpbs.jpbs_940_24Evaluation of the Effect of Functional Contouring of the Palatal Vault of Maxillary Complete Denture on Clarity of Speech Sounds in Edentulous Patients: An In Vivo StudySonal JainManimegalaiBhavin PurohitReshma AminR ArunDeepika R PaiBackground: The articulatory system, which consists of the tongue, lips, teeth, hard palate, and soft palate, is a component of phonetics, the study of speech sounds. Speech sounds are negatively impacted by the lack of teeth and surrounding tissues in edentulous people. Phonetics has not gotten the same level of attention as denture mechanics and aesthetics, despite notable developments in these areas. The purpose of this research is to increase speech clarity in edentulous individuals by contouring the palatal vault of maxillary full dentures. Materials and Methods: Sixty edentulous individuals, who spoke Tamil or English well and were between the ages of 45 and 75, were chosen. Speech sounds from each individual were captured both before and after the maxillary full dentures’ palatal vault was functionally contoured using visible light cure acrylic resin. For a quantitative evaluation, spectrograms were used to examine the speech samples. Results: For most patients, functional contouring of the palatal vault markedly enhanced speech sound quality. The spectrogram analysis’s arbitrary results showed that most participants’ voice clarity had improved by 30% and that the time it took patients to attain clear speech after having a denture had been significantly reduced. Conclusion: The research comes to the conclusion that edentulous patients’ speech clarity is improved by functionally contouring the palatal vault using visible light cure acrylic resin in maxillary full dentures. By using this technique, patients are more satisfied with their dentures and the adaption time is shortened.https://journals.lww.com/10.4103/jpbs.jpbs_940_24edentulous patientsmaxillary complete denturepalatal vault contouringphoneticsspeech clarityvisible light cure resin
spellingShingle Sonal Jain
Manimegalai
Bhavin Purohit
Reshma Amin
R Arun
Deepika R Pai
Evaluation of the Effect of Functional Contouring of the Palatal Vault of Maxillary Complete Denture on Clarity of Speech Sounds in Edentulous Patients: An In Vivo Study
Journal of Pharmacy and Bioallied Sciences
edentulous patients
maxillary complete denture
palatal vault contouring
phonetics
speech clarity
visible light cure resin
title Evaluation of the Effect of Functional Contouring of the Palatal Vault of Maxillary Complete Denture on Clarity of Speech Sounds in Edentulous Patients: An In Vivo Study
title_full Evaluation of the Effect of Functional Contouring of the Palatal Vault of Maxillary Complete Denture on Clarity of Speech Sounds in Edentulous Patients: An In Vivo Study
title_fullStr Evaluation of the Effect of Functional Contouring of the Palatal Vault of Maxillary Complete Denture on Clarity of Speech Sounds in Edentulous Patients: An In Vivo Study
title_full_unstemmed Evaluation of the Effect of Functional Contouring of the Palatal Vault of Maxillary Complete Denture on Clarity of Speech Sounds in Edentulous Patients: An In Vivo Study
title_short Evaluation of the Effect of Functional Contouring of the Palatal Vault of Maxillary Complete Denture on Clarity of Speech Sounds in Edentulous Patients: An In Vivo Study
title_sort evaluation of the effect of functional contouring of the palatal vault of maxillary complete denture on clarity of speech sounds in edentulous patients an in vivo study
topic edentulous patients
maxillary complete denture
palatal vault contouring
phonetics
speech clarity
visible light cure resin
url https://journals.lww.com/10.4103/jpbs.jpbs_940_24
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