Health-related quality of life in edentulous patients
Journal of Medicine and Life, cilt.14, sa.5, ss.683-689, 2021 (Scopus)
- Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
- Cilt numarası: 14 Sayı: 5
- Basım Tarihi: 2021
- Doi Numarası: 10.25122/jml-2021-0277
- Dergi Adı: Journal of Medicine and Life
- Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Scopus, Academic Search Premier, EMBASE, MEDLINE
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.683-689
- Anahtar Kelimeler: complete denture, edentulism, quality of life, systemic diseases
- Açık Arşiv Koleksiyonu: AVESİS Açık Erişim Koleksiyonu
- Sağlık Bilimleri Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
This study aimed to assess Oral Health-Related Quality of Life (OHQoL) and satisfaction in patients who had complete denture treatment and were diagnosed with systemic diseases. Eighty edentulous patients using new complete dentures were sepa-rated into four groups according to their diseases [diabetes mellitus (DM)/osteoporo-sis (OP)/hypertension (HP)/healthy (control)]. The groups answered the Turkish version of the United Kingdom-Oral Health-Related Quality of Life (OHQoL-UK) and Visual Analog Scale (VAS) questionnaire four weeks after treatment. OHQoL-UK scores were slightly higher for females regardless of the type of disease. Compared with the control participants (57.95±5.33), the scores of the OHQoL-UK were not significantly different in OP and HP groups except for the DM group (58.7±5.37, 58.9±6.44, 45.3±5.19 respectively). DM was significantly associated with the increase of OHQoL values (p<0.05). Patients in all groups reported significantly higher “phys-ical health” scores than other subdomains of OHQoL-UK, although positive correlations were determined among them. Presence of disease had no relationship to the VAS scores. This study shows that systemic diseases might not affect and predict pa-tients' satisfaction with their complete dentures and OHQoL. DM is an independent risk factor for oral health. Satisfaction with the prosthesis might concern a patient's level of OHQoL.