Denture wearing, elderly, oral health related quality of life. Abstract This study aims to determine the prevalence of denture wearing among elderly and to compare the oral health related quality of life (OHRQoL) between elderly with dentures and those without dentures. This cross sectional study involved 506 randomly selected edentulous elderly in the district of Badang, Kota Bharu, Kelantan. ...

World Health Organization (WHO) in 1948, defined health as “a complete state of physical, mental, social wellbeing and not just the absence of the disease”. This underscores the importance of quality of life defined as patients’ “perceptions of their position in life in the context of culture and value systems in which they live, and in relation to their goals, expectations, standards, and conc...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study is to describe the oral health status and the factors associated with oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) in people aged 65 and older institutionalized in Barcelona in 2009. STUDY DESIGN [corrected] Cross sectional study in 194 elderly. The dependent variable was poor OHRQoL, according to the Geriatric Oral Health Assessment Index (GOHAI). The in...

PARENTAL PERCEPTIONS OF RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE FOR CHILDREN THAT RECEIVE CARE ON GIVE KIDS A SMILE DAY By Andrew Clayton Gibson DDS A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Dentistry at Virginia Commonwealth University. Virginia Commonwealth University, 2016 Thesis Advisor: Elizabeth Berry, DDS, MS, MPH Vice Chair, Assistant Professor...

BACKGROUND Health-related quality of life (HRQOL) is a multidimensional concept regarding quality of life (QOL) as it relates specifically to health and disease. The effect of ongoing hemodialysis on a person's oral health can be determined by clinical variables, but these do not reflect the person's perception of health versus illness. The authors conducted a study to determine the periodontal...

BACKGROUND Recent research has suggested that chronic dry mouth affects the day-to-day lives of older people living in institutions. The condition has usually been considered to be a feature of old age, but recent work by our team produced the somewhat surprising finding that 10% of people in their early thirties are affected. This raises the issue of whether dry mouth is a trivial condition or...

OBJECTIVE To assess oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) in young adult patients with malocclusion and to measure the association between orthodontic treatment need and OHRQoL. MATERIALS AND METHODS The study sample comprised 190 young adults aged 18 to 25 years who were attending orthodontic clinics at the Faculty of Dentistry. The Index of Orthodontic Treatment Need-Dental Health Co...

Objective To assess the relationship between sense of coherence (SOC) and oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) among children aged one to three years. Participants A cross-sectional study was conducted with 276 mother-child pairs randomly selected from the city of Diamantina, Brazil. Method Information was obtained on socio-demographic factors. The short version of Antonovsky's sens...