Associations between perceived needs for dental treatment, oral health-related quality of life and oral diseases in school-aged Thai children

2014 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 323-332 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sudaduang Krisdapong ◽  
Piyada Prasertsom ◽  
Khanit Rattanarangsima ◽  
Aubrey Sheiham
Author(s):  
V. Rollon-Ugalde ◽  
JA. Coello-Suanzes ◽  
AM. Lopez-Jimenez ◽  
J. Herce-Lopez ◽  
P. Toledano-Valero ◽  
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Author(s):  
Nicolas Decerle ◽  
Pierre-Yves Cousson ◽  
Emmanuel Nicolas ◽  
Martine Hennequin

Access to dental treatment could be difficult for some patients due to dental phobia or anxiety, cognitive or sensorial disabilities, systemic disorders, or social difficulties. General anesthesia (GA) was often indicated for dental surgery, and there is almost no available data on adapted procedures and materials that can be applied during GA for maintaining functional teeth on the arches and limiting oral dysfunctions. This study evaluates changes in oral health-related quality of life and mastication in a cohort of uncooperative patients treated under GA according to a comprehensive and conservative dental treatment approach. Dental status, oral health-related quality of life, chewed bolus granulometry, kinematic parameters of mastication, and food refusals were evaluated one month preoperatively (T0), and then one month (T1) and six months post-operatively (T2). One hundred and two adult patients (mean age ± SD: 32.2 ± 9.9 years; range: 18–57.7) participated in the preoperative evaluation, 87 were treated under GA of which 36 participated in the evaluation at T1 and 15 were evaluated at T2. Preoperative and postoperative data comparisons demonstrated that oral rehabilitation under GA helped increase chewing activity and oral health-related quality of life. The conditions for providing dental treatment under GA could be arranged to limit dental extractions in uncooperative patients.


2014 ◽  
Vol 73 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karin Ridell ◽  
Margareta Borgström ◽  
Elisabeth Lager ◽  
Gunilla Magnusson ◽  
Susanne Brogårdh-Roth ◽  
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2006 ◽  
Vol 85 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Hyde ◽  
W.A. Satariano ◽  
J.A. Weintraub

Chronic, untreated oral disease adversely affects one’s systemic health, quality of life, and economic productivity. This study evaluated the effect of rehabilitative dental treatment on the oral-health-related quality of life and employment of welfare recipients. Three hundred and seventy-seven participants in a novel welfare dental program received oral examinations, questionnaires, and rehabilitative dental treatment. Seventy-nine percent of participants exhibited improvement in their oral-health-related quality-of-life scores following dental treatment. Improved OHIP-14 change scores were associated with being Caucasian or African-American, initial poor general health, severity of treatment urgency, worse baseline oral-health-related quality-of-life scores, subsequent patient satisfaction with the Dental Program, and resolution of their chief complaint (all p < 0.04). Those who completed their dental treatment were twice as likely to achieve a favorable/neutral employment outcome (OR = 2.01, 95%CI = 1.12, 3.62). Thus, oral health improved the quality of life and employment outcome for this welfare population.


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