Abstract: It seems tenable to project that objectives in complete denture treatments should be related to patient age and socioeconomic status since these are probably the major determining factors bearing on emphasis, recognition, and tolerance of denture qualities and values and which also bear on fabrication problems that the dentist must solve. The important objectives common to all age and socioeconomic levels may be listed as follows: (1) rehabilitation—the key or overriding objective; (2) comfort—physical and mental—the first sub-objective, for such qualities are intimately tied in with all denture values; (3) esthetics, or a natural, youthful, and pleasing dentofacial appearance, statically and functionally—the second sub-objective; (4) restoration of functions, comminuting and speech—the third sub-objective.These gross functions, while only partially dependent upon denture qualities, do include many patterns of functions which need reactivating to an involuntary state of execution.The intent in presenting this analysis of objectives in complete denture treatments is to stimulate thinking and re-evaluation of present-day needs and values of artificial dentures, and to indicate a professional need to de-emphasize physical values and to emphasize the therapeutic values in projecting denture values to edentulous patients and to dental students. The health service values of denture treatments need a sounder projection basis than has been employed in the past or is being employed at the present time.

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