Very little is known about the potential relationship between welfare state regimes and oral health. This study assessed the oral health of adults in a range of European countries clustered by welfare regimes according to Ferrera's typology and the complementary Eastern type. We analysed data from Eurobarometer wave 72.3, a cross-sectional survey of 31 European countries carried out in 2009. We...

BACKGROUND This study aimed to develop a Korean version of the OIDP index for elderly people and to assess the levels of sociodental impacts in an older Korean population. METHODS The OIDP index for elderly people was cross-culturally adapted from English into Korean and then the derived instrument was tested for reliability and validity. The study population was elderly (65+ year-old) reside...

The aim of this study was to assess the association between oral diseases and condition-specific oral health-related quality of life (CS-OHRQoL) as a basis for proposing OHRQoL-based goals for the population of 15-year-olds in Thailand. Oral examinations and OHRQoL interviews were conducted with 871 15-year-olds as part of the Sixth Thailand National Oral Health Survey. The severity of oral imp...

BACKGROUND Severe dental caries in young children is associated with underweight and failure to thrive. One possible mechanism for severe caries affecting growth is that the resulting pain and discomfort influences sleeping and eating, and that affects growth and weight. The objective of this study was to assess whether rate of weight gain after extraction of severely decayed teeth in underweig...

Purpose. To estimate the impact of the provision of dentures to Thai older people by the Royal Project on their oral health-related quality of life. Methods. A purposive cross-sectional study of a sample of 812 subjects was conducted. The Oral Impacts on Daily Performances (OIDP) measure was used to assess the oral health-related quality of life. Results. Four groups of older people with differ...

BACKGROUND The study aimed to develop and test a Malay version of the Child-OIDP index, evaluate its psychometric properties and report on the prevalence of oral impacts on eight daily performances in a sample of 11-12 year old Malaysian schoolchildren. METHODS The Child-OIDP index was translated from English into Malay. The Malay version was tested for reliability and validity on a non-rando...

BACKGROUND A parental/family history of poor oral health may influence the oral-health-related quality of life (OHRQOL) of adults. OBJECTIVES To determine whether the oral health of mothers of young children can predict the OHRQOL of those same children when they reach adulthood. METHODS Oral examination and interview data from the Dunedin Study's age-32 assessment, as well as maternal self...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the relationship between occlusal characteristics and oral health-related quality of life in adults who underwent orthodontic or orthodontic-surgical treatment. The study group consisted of 51 adult patients (35 women, 16 men) with severe malocclusion and considerable functional disorders. Thirty-six of the patients underwent combined orthodontic-surgical t...

BACKGROUND Health-related quality of life (HRQOL) is a multidimensional construct that refers to an individual's self-perceived well-being. This study used the revised Wilson and Cleary HRQOL model to investigate the associations among oral symptoms, oral health-related quality of life (OHRQOL), and HRQOL of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) in Malaysia. METHODS A total of 121 PLWHA receivi...