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| Title |
Impact of untreated dental caries and its clinical consequences on the oral health-related quality of life of schoolchildren aged 8–10 years
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| Published in |
Quality of Life Research, July 2015
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| DOI | 10.1007/s11136-015-1059-7 |
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| Authors |
Isabella Mota-Veloso, Maria Eliza C. Soares, Bruna Mota Alencar, Leandro Silva Marques, Maria Letícia Ramos-Jorge, Joana Ramos-Jorge |
| Abstract |
This study aims to evaluate the impact of untreated dental caries and its clinical consequences on the quality of life of Brazilian schoolchildren aged 8-10 years. A randomly selected sample of 587 children underwent a clinical oral examination for the assessment of untreated dental caries and clinical consequences. The WHO criteria (decayed component of the decayed, missing, and filled teeth-D-DMFT in permanent teeth or d-dfmt in primary teeth) and the PUFA index, which records the presence of severely decayed permanent (upper case) and primary (lower case) teeth with visible pulpal involvement (P/p), as well as ulceration caused by dislocated tooth fragments (U/u), fistula (F/f), and abscesses (A/a), were used for the oral examination. Oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) was evaluated using the Child's Perception Questionnaire (CPQ8-10). Poisson regression was employed to test unadjusted and adjusted associations between untreated dental caries/clinical consequences and OHRQoL. The prevalence of untreated dental caries was 64.6 % (D/d component of DMFT/dmft > 0) and 17.9 % of children exhibited clinical consequences of caries (PUFA/pufa index >0). In the adjusted models, untreated caries was significantly associated with the total CPQ8-10 score and all subscale scores. The clinical consequences of dental caries (PUFA/pufa index >0) were significantly associated with the total CPQ8-10 as well as the oral symptoms and functional limitations' subscales. Untreated dental caries and its clinical consequences exerted a negative impact on the OHRQoL of the schoolchildren analyzed. |
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| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 1 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
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| Members of the public | 1 | 100% |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 157 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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| Student > Master | 23 | 15% |
| Student > Bachelor | 20 | 13% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 14 | 9% |
| Professor | 9 | 6% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 9 | 6% |
| Other | 32 | 20% |
| Unknown | 50 | 32% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 72 | 46% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 8 | 5% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 4 | 3% |
| Social Sciences | 4 | 3% |
| Psychology | 4 | 3% |
| Other | 13 | 8% |
| Unknown | 52 | 33% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 13 October 2023.
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#7,661,040
of 24,609,626 outputs
Outputs from Quality of Life Research
#811
of 3,030 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#83,857
of 268,374 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Quality of Life Research
#15
of 83 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 24,609,626 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 68th percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 3,030 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 5.1. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 71% of its peers.
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