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Narrative review highlights management strategies for gagging in prosthodontic patients, indicating practical implications.
During prosthodontic treatments, gagging is a common clinical problem that can negatively impact treatment results. Making impressions, recording jaw relations, inserting dentures, and helping patients adjust to prostheses can all be hampered by an excessive gag reaction. Gagging has a complex aetiology that includes iatrogenic, anatomical, physiological, psychological, and prosthesis-related variables. Effective management requires accurate diagnosis and the identification of contributing factors. Numerous therapeutic and preventive strategies have been promoted, including pharmaceutical interventions, prosthodontic changes, behavioural modification and digital technologies. Based on conventional textbooks and scientific literature, this review provides an overview of the causes, categorisation, management, and prevention of gagging in prosthodontic patients.
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