[Changes in oral mucosa of the partially edentulous who wear removable partial dentures ]

to confirm or infirm structural modification of oral mycosis at the summit after fifteen days of wearing removable resin partial dentures.

our study took place at the health center of Rufisque in Senegal from January to July 1998, involved fourteen patients divided into two groups according to sex: seven males and seven females who came for removable resin partial dentures. The macroscopic examination was conducted through to inspection and touching of mycosis at the level of toothless summit before the wearing of the denture. A biopsy was conducted on each patient before and after the wearing of the resin dentures. Tissue reaction was appreciated qualitatively through morphological analysis.

Before the wearing of the removable resin partial dentures 92.9% of patients had epithelial hyperplasia; 7.1% epithelial hypoplasia and 85.7% keratosis at the level of the chorion the number of collagen fibbers (28.6% discrete, 50% moderate, 21.4% important), fibroblasts (35.7% discrete; 42.9% moderate ; 21.4% important), inflammatory cells (71.4% discrete; 28.6% moderate; 0% important) and for blood vessels (64% discrete; 35.70% moderate; 0% important) after fifteen days of wearing partial denture. After fifteen days of the wearing removable resin partial dentures: 85.7% of patients had epithelial hyperplasia; 14.3% normal epithelial and 100% de keratosis at the level of the chorion the number of collagen fibbers (14.3% discrete; 21.4% moderate; 64.3% important), fibroblasts (42.9% discrete; 42.90% moderate; 14.3% important), inflammatory cells (50% discrete, 35.7% moderate: 14.3% important), blood vessels (43% discrete; 28.6% moderate; 28.6% important).

Biopsies of the summit are reliable contribution; they provide precise information on the quality of tissue supporting resin partial dentures. This tissues may seem healthy appearance (inspection and touching) but show sign of suffering at this anatomy-pathological examination.