BACKGROUND Promoting oral health of adolescents is important for improvement of oral health globally. This study used baseline-data from LASH-project targeting secondary students to; 1) assess frequency of poor oral hygiene status and oral impacts on daily performances, OIDP, by socio-demographic and behavioural characteristics, 2) examine whether socio-economic and behavioural correlates of or...

Glycosylation of peptides is a promising strategy for modulating the physicochemical properties of peptide drugs and for improving their absorption through biological membranes. This review highlights various methods for the synthesis of glycoconjugates and recent progress in the development of glycosylated peptide therapeutics. Furthermore, the impacts of glycosylation in overcoming the existi...

his report examines the social impact of oral conditions on quality of life among a representative sample of adults in Australia. The frequency and severity of impacts such as pain and functional limitation was evaluated using the 14-item Oral Health Impact Profile (OHIP-14) (AIHW: Carter & Stewart 2003) that was administered by a self-completed survey mailed to adult interviewees in the 2002 N...

BACKGROUND Oral health-related quality of life (OHQoL) is conceived as a multidimensional construct. Here our aim was to investigate the dimensional structure of OHQoL as measured by the Spanish versions of the Oral Impacts on Daily Performance (OIDP) and the Oral Health Impact Profile (OHIP-14) questionnaires applied simultaneously. METHODS We recruited a consecutive sample of 270 healthy Sp...

Oral anticoagulation has become one of the most complex therapeutic-preventive measures prescribed to patients with heart valve diseases in outpatient clinics4. The identification of signs of neither embolism nor hemorrhage during the use of the oral anticoagulant is far from being a certainty of the continuity of the clinical status, because conformity with the state of the art of warfarin app...

BACKGROUND There is a need for studies evaluating oral health related quality of life (OHRQoL) of children in developing countries. AIM to assess the psychometric properties, prevalence and perceived causes of the child version of oral impact on daily performance inventory (Child-OIDP) among school children in two socio-demographically different districts of Tanzania. Socio-behavioral and cli...

OBJECTIVES The objective of this study is to assess prevalence and extent of school absence due to toothache, dental caries, and Oral Health-Related Quality of Life (OHRQoL) in a subsample of the Thailand national oral health survey. In addition, associations of school absence as the outcome variable with explanatory behavioral and sociodemographic variables, dental caries, and OHRQoL were inve...

AIM To assess the application of the Oral Impacts on Daily Performances (OIDP) index for use in three different language and cultural settings; OBJECTIVES To develop a Spanish and Afrikaans version of the OIDP for use in the USA and South Africa and to assess its reliability and validity in three counties: UK, USA and South Africa. DESIGN Co-ordinated pilot studies using the OIDP questionna...

BACKGROUND Information on the impact of oral health on quality of life of children younger than 8 years is mostly based on parental reports, as methodological and conceptual challenges have hindered the development of relevant validated self-reported measures. This study aimed to develop and assess the reliability and validity of a new self-reported oral health related quality of life measure, ...