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Oral health-related quality of life of 12- and 15-year-old Thai children: findings from a national survey.
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For both age groups, impacts were mostly on eating performance; toothache and Oral ulcers were the two important perceived causes reflecting needs for oral health promotion and treatment of dental caries and oral ulcers.Citations
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Oral diseases: a global public health challenge
Marco Aurélio Peres,Lorna M. D. Macpherson,Robert J. Weyant,Blánaid Daly,Renato Venturelli,Manu Raj Mathur,Stefan Listl,Stefan Listl,Roger Keller Celeste,Carol C Guarnizo-Herreño,Cristin E. Kearns,Habib Benzian,Paul J. Allison,Richard G. Watt +13 more
TL;DR: The extent and consequences of oral diseases, their social and commercial determinants, and their ongoing neglect in global health policy are described to highlight the urgent need to address oral diseases among other NCDs as a global health priority.
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Assessment of the quality of measures of child oral health-related quality of life
TL;DR: The three measures evaluated appear to be able to discriminate between groups, and future developments should also focus on the development of measures which can evaluate longitudinal change.
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Evaluation of oral health-related quality of life among Sudanese schoolchildren using Child-OIDP inventory
TL;DR: The Arabic version of the Child-OIDP was applicable for use among schoolchildren in Khartoum and showed acceptable psychometric properties and is considered as a valid, reliable and practical inventory for use in this population.
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The impact of dental caries on children and young people: what they have to say?
TL;DR: Children as young as 5 years of age were able to competently discuss their experiences of dental caries and three subthemes were identified: impacts related to pain, strategies adopted to reduce pain, and emotional aspects resulting from pain.
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Relationships between oral diseases and impacts on Thai schoolchildren's quality of life: Evidence from a Thai national oral health survey of 12- and 15-year-olds
TL;DR: Gingivitis was the most common oral disease whereas dental caries affected children's quality of life most while gingIVitis and calculus related to psychosocial aspects in 12-year-olds.
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Oral health, general health and quality of life.
TL;DR: Health policies should be reori-ented to incorporate oral health into general health promotion using sociodental approaches to assessing needs and the common risk factor approach for health promotion.
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From victim blaming to upstream action: tackling the social determinants of oral health inequalities
TL;DR: A conceptual shift is needed away from this biomedical/behavioural 'downstream' approach, to one addressing the 'upstream' underlying social determinants of population oral health.
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Quality of life measurement in children and adolescents: issues, instruments, and applications.
TL;DR: How to construe and define QL, approach its measurement, and the implications of for whom this is done are discussed and a set of generic QL measures are recommended for further consideration.
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Developing and evaluating an oral health-related quality of life index for children; the CHILD-OIDP.
TL;DR: This study has demonstated that the CHILD-OIDP index is a valid, reliable and practical measure of oral health-related quality of life in 12 year old Thai children.