Association between factors related to the time of wearing complete dentures and oral health-related quality of life in patients who maintained a recall

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Abstract

These factors had little effect on perceived quality of life.

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John MT, Szentpétery A et al. Int J Prosthodont 2007; 20: 31–36

Oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) is less satisfactory in complete denture (CD) wearers, but there is little evidence on the factors affecting this. In the present study, 50 patients out of 161 who received CDs in a German university clinic over a 4.5 yr period agreed to participate. Subjects completed questionnaires on OHRQoL and on their CD history. OHRQoL data were compared with those of another group of CD patients taken before treatment, and with general population scores.

Subjects with impaired OHRQoL scores were more often female, and had worn their current CDs longer (no statistical tests reported). Comparison of the present group with the other two groups gave no reported differences. Regression analysis relating age of current CDs, time since first CDs, number of previous CDs and age of first CD provision to OHRQoL scores gave no significant results. The authors suggest that such changes are slow.