Oral Stereognosis and Oral Motor Ability, an Assessment to Denture Adaptability

Oral stereognosis and oral motor ability tests are useful in considering the prognosis of treatment with dentures. The acute perceptive ability of the mouth is recognized even in the denture wearing patients, although in the area of fine discrimination they are at a slight disadvantage particularly if they are aged. Patients who have low denture tolerance generally tend to have high stereognostic ability and vice versa and older patients seem to have lower scores than younger in oral motor ability tests. This is a part of the major investigation/study to evaluate responses of patients to variation in denture forms as determined by intra oral force measurements. Oral stereognosis and oral motor ability tests were performed to select a group of subjects who were believed to be orally of normal adaptability and have good prognosis in treatment with dentures.