TY - BOOK AU - Nora Abdulla Ali Mohamed AU - Ahmed Emad Fayyad , AU - Amal Fathy Kaddah , AU - Iman Mostafa Ahmed , TI - Management of partially edentulous mandible with a pier abutment using two different treatment options / PY - 2015/// CY - Cairo : PB - Nora Abdulla Ali Mohamed , KW - Partially edentulous mandible KW - Pier abutment KW - Treatment options N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Oral and Dental Medicine - Department of Prosthodontics; Issued also as CD N2 - Fourteen patients were selected from the prosthodontic outpatient clinics, Faculty of oral and dental medicine, Cairo university. All patients selected had mandibular kennedy class I modification I with a Pier abutment only from one side and all patients selected according to certain criteria demonstrated before. The fourteen patients were divided into two equal groups where one group had received conventional metal clasp retained lower removable partial denture and the other group had received telescopic crown retained lower removable partial denture. The retentive quality of both types of partial dentures were measured using the digital forcemeter machine at periodic intervals 0 month, 3 months, 6 months and 9 months from the delivery time. In addition, a standardized questionnaire were taken to measure to how much degree the patients were satisfied by which type of treatment. The results were gathered, tabulated and statistically analyzed using SPSS version 20 UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -