Impact of tooth loss related to number and position on oral health quality of life among adults
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...In other studies, the risk of evaluation bias was found (18,25,34)....
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...All 8 studies showed that the position of missing teeth was significantly related to impaired OHRQoL (Tsakos et al. 2006; Walter et al. 2007; Baba et al. 2008b; Mesas et al. 2008; Pallegedara and Ekanayake 2008; Al-Omiri et al. 2009; Perera and Ekanayake 2012; Batista et al. 2014)....
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...The past caries experience was used as the calculation base, as measured by the DMFT (Decayed, Missed and Filled Teeth) index in adults [13], and adjusted for the population size of Piracicaba....
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...Health literacy (HL) relates to the capacity of individuals to acquire, understand and take action on health information and make appropriate health decisions, with the final objective being the maintenance of their health or the management of a disease [4], which means autonomy in * Correspondence: mariliajbatista@yahoo.com.br 1Community Health, Jundiai Medical School, Francisco Telles, 250, P.O. Box1295, Jundiaí, SP 13202-550, Brazil 2Community Health Graduate Program, Piracicaba Dental School, University of Campinas, Avenida Limeira 901, P.O. Box 52, Piracicaba, SP 13414-018, Brazil Full list of author information is available at the end of the article © The Author(s)....
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...For our study, we used the instrument of Ishkawa et al. [7] to assess the communicative and critical literacy of adults in Piracicaba city in the State of São Paulo, Brazil and their association with oral health outcomes, including oral health status measures, oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) and oral care practices....
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...This study is nested in a research project evaluating the oral health status of a cohort of 20 to 64 year-old adults who were residents of Piracicaba [12]....
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...4Department of Community Dentistry, Piracicaba Dental School, University of Campinas, Brazil, Avenida Limeira 901, P.O. Box 52, Piracicaba, SP 13414-018, Brazil....
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...In a recent systematic review it was concluded that tooth loss impacts on quality of life [1] independently of the instrument used to measure quality of life or the social context....
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...associated with impairment of Oral Health-Related Quality of Life (OHRQoL) [1]....
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...However, these studies showed the impact of tooth loss on OHRQoL according to the number of teeth and position of teeth separately [1]....
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...Discussion Previous studies have demonstrated the impact of tooth loss on OHRQoL [1,9,25,26], but identifying how this impact occurs is a challenge to epidemiologic studies....
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...Oliveira BH, Nadanovisk P: Psychometric properties of the Brazilian version of the oral health impact profile– short form....
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...The instrument used to assess OHRQoL was the OHIP-14 [13], which was validated in Brazil by Oliveira & Nadanovisk [20]....
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...Studies based on patient perception are important to improve knowledge about the impact on OHRQoL, because adults and children lose many hours of work and study annually owing to the problems and discomfort associated with oral diseases [32]....
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