Browsing Centre for Dental Public Health and Primary Care by Subject "Quality of Life"
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An Assessment of Pediatric Dental Caries and Family Quality of Life in an Informal Amazonian Community.
(2021)BACKGROUND: Oral diseases are among the most prevalent non-communicable diseases worldwide, disproportionally affecting vulnerable populations. The Community of Claverito is one of many informal urban floating communities ... -
A comparison of children's experiences with fixed and removable functional appliances: A qualitative study.
(2023-09)INTRODUCTION: The objective of this study was to compare children's experiences and perceptions of treatment with Hanks-Herbst (HH) and modified Twin-block (MTB) functional appliances. METHODS: A pragmatic nested qualitative ... -
Developing a Standard Set of Patient-centred Outcomes for Adult Oral Health - An International, Cross-disciplinary Consensus.
(Elsevier, 2021-01-16)OBJECTIVE: To develop a minimum Adult Oral Health Standard Set (AOHSS) for use in clinical practice, research, advocacy and population health. MATERIALS AND METHODS: An international oral health working group (OHWG) was ... -
Education mediates the relationship of parental socioeconomic status with subjective adult oral health.
(2023-08-10)BACKGROUND: Evidence shows that both socioeconomic status (SES) during childhood and education are associated with adult oral health. However, whether the range of opportunities families have regarding their children's ... -
Evaluating the quality of life in patients with ulcerative oral lesions
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Family functioning and preschool children's oral health-related quality of life.
(2023-04)INTRODUCTION: Identifying which aspects of how a family functions are relevant to child oral health provides opportunities for interventions targeting the family context. The aim of this study was to investigate the ... -
Impact of oral clefts on the oral health-related quality of life of preschool children and their parents.
(2018-09)OBJECTIVE: To assess the oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) of preschool children with cleft lip and palate (CLP) and their relatives. MATERIALS AND METHODS: In this cross-sectional study, 55 2-5-year-old children ... -
Impact of Pregestational Obesity on the Oral Health-Related Quality of Life in Brazilian Pregnant Women: A Cohort Study.
(2024-06-06)The oral health-related quality of life of pregnant women and its effects on health conditions are important topics to be investigated in scientific research. The objective of this study was to evaluate the impact of ... -
Intragenerational social mobility and self-rated oral health in the british cohort study.
(2021-04-07)BACKGROUND: Most studies on social mobility and oral health have focused on movement between generations (intergenerational mobility) rather than movement within an individual's own lifetime (intragenerational mobility). ... -
Oral Health Disparities in Children: A Canary in the Coalmine?
(2018-10)Despite being largely preventable, oral diseases are still a major public health problem in child populations in many parts of the world. Increasingly, however, oral diseases disproportionately affect socially disadvantaged ... -
Oral Health-Related Quality of Life of Refugees in Settlements in Greece.
(2022-10)INTRODUCTION: The objective of this cross-sectional study was to investigate the oral health-related quality of life (OHQoL) amongst refugees at emergency dental clinics in settlements in Northern Greece. METHODS: A ... -
Pandemic Considerations on Essential Oral Health Care
(SAGE Publications, 2020-12-09)The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic revealed a lack of consensus on the concept of essential oral health care. We propose a definition of essential oral health care that includes urgent and basic oral health ... -
Removable Partial Dentures for Older Adults.
(2020-09)Improvements in oral health including increased retention of natural teeth have given rise to a partially dentate older population. Replacement of missing natural teeth is important to improve function, aesthetics and ... -
Satisfaction with orthodontic treatment: cross-cultural adaptation and validation of an instrument for the Brazilian Portuguese language.
(2023)OBJECTIVE: To cross-culturally adapt into the Brazilian Portuguese and evaluate the psychometric properties of an instrument for assessing the satisfaction of parents/guardians regarding their sons'/daughters' orthodontic ... -
The use of the Hanks Herbst vs Twin-block in Class II malocclusion: A randomized controlled trial.
(2023-09)INTRODUCTION: This 2-arm parallel study aimed to compare and evaluate the efficiency of Hanks Herbst (HH) and Twin-block (TB) functional appliances in treating adolescents with Class II malocclusion. METHODS: A parallel-group ...