Sanja Persic

• DMD, PhD
• Professor (Associate) at University of Zagreb

Background

Objectives: E-cigarette use has become popular, particularly among the youth. Its use is associated with harmful general and oral health consequences. This survey aimed to assess self-reported oral hygiene practices, oral and general health events, and changes in physiological functions (including physical status, smell, taste, breathing, appetite,...

This clinical report describes how a decubital ulcer arose from the direct contact of the vestibular movable mucous membrane against mini-implant balled-type heads after the mini-implant insertion in the edentulous atrophic mandible of a 78-year-old patient who was not wearing a conventional mandibular complete denture for more than 10 years. Due t...

This prospective clinical study aimed to assess self-reported orofacial esthetics, chewing function, and oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) over three years in the Kennedy Class I patients without posterior dentition who received free-end saddle removable partial dentures (RPDs) retained by two mini dental implants (MDIs) inserted in the...

Background and Objectives: Due to a lack of long-term clinical studies that would clarify whether the insertion of three mini-implants (MDIs) can be as successful treatment as the insertion of four MDIs for the retention of mandibular overdentures (ODs), this 5-year prospective cohort study was set up. Materials and Methods: Participants (n = 83) r...

Background and objectives: Long-term studies of clinical outcomes of mini-implants (MDIs) in the first premolar/canine sites retaining a bilateral free-ending removable partial dentures (RPD) in Kennedy class I subjects have not been well documented. The aim was to assess clinical outcomes in a prospective 5-year cohort study comparing the mandible...

Background E-cigarette use is a trend worldwide nowadays with mounting evidence on associated morbidities and mortality. Dentists can modify the smoking behaviors of their patients. This study aimed to explore the knowledge, beliefs, attitude, and practice of E-cigarette use among dental students. Materials and methods This multinational, cross-se...

Purpose It has not been previously studied whether one-piece, category 1 narrow dental implants (≤ 2.5 mm wide) can successfully support crowns or small bridges. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the long-term benefits of the fixed-type MDIs for replacement of mandibular incisors. Materials & Methods In a prospective cohort, study fixed-ty...

Objective of work: It is unclear how long patients need to adapt to new dentures. This study assessed adaptation and five years of clinical use, comparing complete denture wearers (CDs) and mini-implant mandibular overdenture wearers opposing a maxillary CD (MDI-OD), based on oral health reported quality of life (OHRQoL) and orofacial esthetics (O...

Objectives E-cigarette use has become popular, particularly among the youth. Its use is associated with harmful general and oral health consequences. This survey aimed to assess self-reported oral hygiene practices, oral and general health events, and changes in physiological functions (including physical status, smell, taste, breathing, appetite,...

Objectives: This study was performed to determine the values of the articular eminence inclination (AEI), the articular eminence height (AEH), and the length of the articular eminence curved line (AEL) among American prehistoric and contemporary populations. Materials and methods: The study was carried out on 120 human dry skulls divided into 4...

Abstract Objective: Poor oral health, mainly tooth loss, has been suggested to pose a risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease (AD). The nature of this relationship can be explained by mastication deficit and nutritional status. Also, the influence of nutritional parameters on cognitive impairment has been documented. The aim of this study was to invest...

Background Oral Function, Orofacial Pain, Orofacial Appearance, and Psychosocial Impact are the four oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) dimensions (4D) or areas in which oral disorders impact pediatric patients. Using their dentists' assessment, the study aimed to evaluate whether pediatric dental patients' oral health concerns fit into t...

Introduction/Objective. Dental patient-reported outcome measures are very important in a disease specific population such as edentulous subjects. The aim of the study was to adapt the Oral Health Impact Profile for Edentulous Subjects (OHIP-EDENT) in the cultural environment of North Macedonia. Methods. This study adapted the original 19-item versi...

Introduction The aim was to adapt the Croatian and the Serbian versions of the Oral Health Impact Profile for the edentulous population (OHIP-EDENT-CRO and OHIP-EDENT-SRB). Methods The translation and cross-cultural adaptation were carried out in accordance with accepted international standards. A total of 95 and 177 removable denture wearers were...

Objectives: The extent to which dentists are happy with their profession and their life has not been well studied. The present study aimed to explore the level of happiness, satisfaction with life and psychological well-being among a sample of dental professionals from 21 countries. Materials and Methods: The sample comprised 2,200 dentists from...

Background The dimensions of oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) Oral Function, Orofacial Pain, Orofacial Appearance, and Psychosocial Impact are the major areas where patients are impacted by oral diseases and dental interventions. Aim The aim of this study was to evaluate whether dental patients’ reasons to visit the dentist fit the fou...

Objectives: To assess periimplant bone level, survival and success rates of short (6 or 8 mm long) one- piece mini- implants (MDIs) in edentulous patients with extremely resorbed alveolar ridge (interforaminal height < 10 mm) rehabilitated with mandibular implant overdentures (IODs) and to compare them with patients having standard length MDIs in...

Objectives To prospectively assess self-perceived chewing function (CF) and oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) in geriatric patients after receiving three different treatment modalities in the mandible: removable partial denture (CD-RPD), complete denture (CDs), or complete overdenture supported by mini dental implants (CD-MDI). At baseli...

Serious consequences of long-term complete denture wearing may be extreme residual ridge atrophy and a reduced area of keratinized oral mucosa of a denture-bearing area. This paper presents five clinical cases of extreme mandibular ridge atrophy, rehabilitated by means of mandibular overdentures retained by short mini dental implants. The patients...

Aim: Due to fast and continuing advances in digital dental technology it is important to provide appropriate CAD/CAM education of preclinical (PS) and clinical (CS) dental students. Therefore, the aim of this study was to determine the knowledge and attitudes on CAD/CAM technology of PS and CS at the School of Dental Medicine, University of Zagreb...

Abstract Objective The aim was to compare esthetic outcomes, masticatory performance and a comfort of removable partial denture (RPD) wearing after receiving: clasp-retained RPD (C-RPD) or mini dental implant-retained RPD (MDI-RPD) in the mandible. Materials and Methods: A sample of 88 patients (Kennedy Class I) with all posterior teeth missing...

Purpose: To assess short-term postoperative pain and swelling after insertion of mini dental implants (MDI) and standard-size implants (SSI) in the same patients at different times. Materials and methods: A convenience sample of 42 patients (22 females, 20 males; 58 to 73 years old) participated. Half of the participants received MDIs first, and...

Objective: To develop the Croatian version of the 41-item Dental Environment Stress questionnaire (DES) for stress assessment of dental students in both, preclinical and clinical years of study and to test its psychometric properties in Croatian dental student population. Materials and Methods: The English version of the 41-Item DES questionnaire w...

Articular eminence inclination (AEI) of the temporomandibular joint leads the mandible in its movements. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to determine AEI values in medieval (MP) and recent (RP) Croatian population. The study was carried out on two groups of specimens: first group with 30 MP human dry skulls, while the other, serving as...

Purpose: The aim of this study was to evaluate the oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) of patients treated with three different types of mandibular implant overdentures (IOD) after at least 3 years in function. Materials and methods: A total of 122 patients treated with mini implant (50), locator (56), or bar (16) mandibular IODs partic...

Introduction: Aim was to assess treatment outcomes using the standardized questionnaires for assessment of self-perceived orofacial esthetics (OE), oral health related quality of life (OHRQoL) and chewing function (CF) in patients treated either with new complete dentures (CD group) or with maxillary complete dentures and mandibular Kennedy Class...

Purpose: To evaluate effects of a treatment taking into consideration esthetics, chewing, and oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) of two tooth replacement strategies for maxillary partially edentulous patients with clasp (C-RPD) and precision attachment (PA-RPD) retained removable partial dentures (RPD). Materials and methods: The study...

The aim was to adapt the Orofacial Esthetic Scale (OES) and to test psychometric properties of the Albanian language version in the cultural environment of the Republic of Kosovo. The OES questionnaire was translated from the original English version according to the accepted techniques. The reliability (internal consistency), and validity (constru...

Aims were to investigate and compare the validity and reliability of Oral Health Impact Profile (OHIP) scores referencing 7-day and 1-month recall periods in international prosthodontic patients. A sample of 267 patients (mean age = 54.0 years, SD = 17.2 years, 58 % women) with stable oral health-related quality of life was recruited from prosthodo...

Purpose The aim was to assess influence of different prosthodontic rehabilitation options on improvement of orofacial esthetics, chewing function (CF) and oral health-related quality of life. Methods Patients treated with 70 conventional complete dentures (CDs), 38 implant-supported mandibular complete dentures opposed to maxillary CDs, 56 conve...

Objective of work: Oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) as a multidimensional concept is affected by many factors. Therefore, the aim of this study was to determine which demographic and subjective factors are significantly affecting the OHRQoL among the elderly people wearing complete removable dental prostheses (CRDP). Materials and met...

Objective: To determine the effect of different prosthodontic treatment options on patient's chewing function (CF) and oral health related quality of life (OHRQoL). Method: Patients treated with 138 complete dentures (CD), 114 removable partial dentures (RPD), 52 fixed partial dentures (FPD), 34 implant-supported complete dentures (CDi), 8 remova...

Objective: The purpose of this study was to investigate reproducibility of the centric relation position (CR) in patients with disc displacement with reduction, in comparison to control group. Method: Test group included 30 participants, who had disc displacement with reduction (according to RDC-TMD) in right, left or both joints. Control group i...

Objective: Due to the complex anatomical structure and function of the human temporomandibular joint (TMJ) different measurement methods were developed and introduced in TMJ. Therefore, the aim of this study was to determine and compare the accuracy between different methods used for the articular-eminence inclination (AEI) measurements. Method...

The aim of the study was to examine changes in the position of the abutment teeth (AT), size of undercuts for a denture clasp, as well as an existence of an adequate preparation of abutment teeth. A total of 156 casts of partially edentulous jaws, with 460 AT, were analyzed. The size of undercuts, a degree of abutment rotation, inclination and migr...

Mini dental implants (MDIs) in dentistry are recommended for cases with adequate bone quality and height, but a lack of alveolar bone width. Some studies well documented successful usage of MDIs for a removable denture support, but studies of MDIs supporting fixed prosthodontic restorations are scarce. We aimed to study the effect of fixed partial...

Purpose: A study was conducted to compare the accuracy and time consumption of shade matching tasks performed by students, clinicians, and dental technicians. Materials and methods: A total of 126 participants were asked to pair shade tabs and to choose the best shade match for three natural teeth using the Chromascop shade guide. Time consumpti...

Objective: Mini dental implants (MDIs) in dentistry are recommended for cases with adequate bone quality and height, but a lack of alveolar bone width. Some studies well documented successful usage of MDIs for a removable denture support, but studies of MDIs supporting fixed prosthodontic restorations are scarce. We aimed to study the effect of a f...

To develop a new unidimensional questionnaire for patients' self-assessment of their chewing function (chewing function questionnaire: CFQ) and to test its psychometric properties. A focus group of 7 dentists and 15 prosthodontic patients generated a pool of 30 relevant items. A 5-point Likert scale (0–4) was used. A focus group reduced some redund...

Objectives: To develop a new unidimensional questionnaire for patients’ self assessment of their chewing function (chewing function questionnaire: CFQ). Methods: A focus group of 7 dentists and 15 patients with prosthodontic needs generated a pool of 30 relevant items to describe chewing function. A scale format (Likert 5-point scale) was also de...

Objectives: To test the psychometric properties of the newly developed chewing function questionnaire (CFQ). Methods: The 10 item CFQ was administrated to 200 patients divided into two groups: 100 removable denture wearers (RDWs) and 100 individuals with natural teeth (NT group). Discriminative validity was tested between RDWs and NT group. Conve...

Objective: The aim of this study was to examine the stability of the upper denture simulating masticatory function and to determine possible correlation between upper denture stability and patient's satisfaction with their dentures. Material and Methods: The study was conducted on 54 patients. The upper removable denture stability was assessed by c...

The aims of this study were to develop a Croatian version of the Orofacial Esthetic Scale (OES) and to test its psychometric properties. The English version of the OES was translated into Croatian (forward-backward method). The original 11-point scale as well as a 5-point scale (1 = unsatisfactory, 5 = excellent) were used. Convergent validity was...

Forty patients with lichen planus admitted to University Department of Dermatology and Venereology, Sestre milosrdnice University Hospital in Zagreb during the 2004-2006 period were assigned to this retrospective study. In these 40 patients (27 female and 13 male), lichen planus was diagnosed on the basis of clinical presentation, laboratory findin...

Thirty three patients admitted to the University Department of Dermatology and Venereology, Sestre milosrdnice University Hospital, were included in the study. The purpose of the study was to compare data on age and gender, habits, lesion localization, onset of symptoms and therapy between patients with pemphigus vulgaris and those suffering from b...

Thirty three patients admitted to the University Department of Dermatology and Venereology, Sestre milosrdnice University Hospital, were included in the study. The purpose of the study was to compare data on age and gender, habits, lesion localization, onset of symptoms and therapy between patients with pemphigus vulgaris and those suffering from b...

Forty patients with lichen planus admitted to University Department of Dermatology and Venereology, Sestre milosrdnice University Hospital in Zagreb during the 2004-2006 period were assigned to this retrospective study. In these 40 patients (27 female and 13 male), lichen planus was diagnosed on the basis of clinical presentation, laboratory findin...