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Oral health related to quality of life in patients with stomatological diseases

Carolina Amalia Barcellos Silva, Liliane Janete Grando, Sonia Maria Luckmann Fabro, Ana Lucia Schaefer Ferreira de Mello

Summary

Aim. To describe the oral health-related quality of life (OHR-QoL) in patients with stomatological diseases.

Methods. All new patients seen in the Stomatology Clinic, from August 2008 to July 2009 were selected. OHR-QoL was measured using OHIP-14, in face-to-face interviews. The stomatological diseases were classified into groups according to their origin. OHIP-14 data were used to calculate two variables: prevalence and severity.

Results. The questionnaire was completed by 113 subjects, with a mean of 53.77 years; 63.7% women; 38% of the subjects reported one or more OHR-QoL impacts “fairly often” or “very often” in the last 6 months. The overall result of OHIP-14 index showed a mean of 14.35 (+/-12.01). There was no statistical significance between the stomatological disease groups and the prevalence scores (p=0.25) and mean severity scores (p=0.57).

Conclusions. It seems that bad oral conditions affected quality of life of these patients, especially physical pain and psychological discomfort.

Key words: oral health, quality of life, oral diseases

Received: 14 03 2014

Accepted for publishing: 26 06 2015

¹Pathology Department, São Leopoldo Mandic Institute and Research Center, Campinas, SP, Brazil

²Pathology Department, Dental School, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil

Carolina Amalia Barcellos Silva¹ – D.D.S., PhD

Liliane Janete Grando² – D.D.S., PhD

Sonia Maria Luckmann Fabro² – D.D.S., Msc.

Ana Lucia Schaefer Ferreira de Mello² – D.D.S., PhD

Address correspondence to: Prof. Ana Lúcia S. Ferreira de Mello, Campus Universitário João Davi Ferreira Lima, Bairro Trindade 88040-970, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil.

E-mail address: alfm@terra.com.br



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