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Impact of Dentofacial Deformity on Quality of Life: Age and Gender Differences Evaluated Through OQLQ, OHIP and SF36 J Oral Maxillofac Res 2015;6(3):e3 doi:10.5037/jomr.2015.6303 |
Impact of Dentofacial Deformity on Quality of Life: Age and Gender Differences Evaluated Through OQLQ, OHIP and SF36
1School of Dentistry, Dentistry Department, Ponta Grossa State University, Ponta Grossa, Paraná, Brazil.
Corresponding Author:
Departamento de Odontologia, Faculdade de Odontologia
University
Av. General Carlos Cavalcanti, 4748 - CEP 84.030-900
Bloco M, Ponta Grossa, Paraná
Brazil
Phone: + 55 42 32203104
E-mail: mbortoluzzi@gmail.com
ABSTRACT
Objectives: The aim of this study was to verify the impact of dentofacial deformity on quality of life and explore gender and age differences.
Material and Methods: The impact of dentofacial deformity (DD) on quality of life was evaluated through questionnaires; Short Form Health Survey (SF36), Oral Health Impact Profile Questionnaire (OHIP), Orthognathic Quality of Life Questionnaire (OQLQ) and a single question answered by a Visual Analogue Scale.
Results: Significant differences between male and female patients were observed in domains of OQLQ (oral function, P = 0.006; awareness of facial deformity, P = 0.018; and facial aesthetics, P < 0.001) and OHIP (physical pain, P = 0.006; psychological discomfort, P = 0.007; psychological disability, P = 0.006; and handicap, P = 0.01).
Conclusions: The impact of dentofacial deformity was more pronounced in female Brazilian population. Age of patients with dentofacial deformity produced impacts over quality of life in different ways and according to the applied questionnaire and the interaction between age and gender may also produce different impacts in patients with dentofacial deformity. The domains of Orthognathic Quality of Life Questionnaire, Oral Health Impact Profile Questionnaire and Short Form Health Survey showed unaccepted distances in the pattern of answer rising doubts of their ability to assess quality of life as a generic and broad concept. There is a necessity to create a single quality of life instrument capable to measure impacts with sensitivity and specificity and from a generic concept to condition-specific health problem.
J Oral Maxillofac Res 2015;6(3):e3
doi: 10.5037/jomr.2015.6303
Accepted for publication: 19 August 2015
Keywords: dentofacial deformities; quality of life; oral health; questionnaires.
To cite this article: Impact of Dentofacial Deformity on Quality of Life: Age and Gender Differences Evaluated Through OQLQ, OHIP and SF36. J Oral Maxillofac Res 2015;6(3):e3. URL: http://www.ejomr.org/JOMR/archives/2015/3/e3/v6n3e3ht.htm |
Received: 25 February 2015 | Accepted: 19 August 2015 | Published: 30 September 2015
Copyright: © The Author(s). Published by JOMR under CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 licence, 2015.