Impact of tooth loss on quality of life in adult users of the SUS / Impacto da perda dentária na qualidade de vida em adultos usuários do SUS

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FONTE

IBICT - Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

08/07/2011

RESUMO

The objectives of this study were to understand the conditions of oral health status of adults users from the Unified Health System - UHS, to verify the association between tooth loss and the impact on quality of life and see if the high caries experience interferes in the quality of life of this population. A survey was conducted with 111 adults from 30 to 59 years in two Basic Health Units in São Paulo. The clinical examination was conducted by an examiner to assess the conditions of dental caries, following the criteria of World Health Organization. Questionnaires were used to obtain demographic, socioeconomic and behavioral factors. To asses quality of life in oral health was applied Oral Health Impact Profile (OHIP-14) instrument. It was used to tooth loss, a limit of 7 missing teeth, and the group of high caries experience, SiC - Significant Caries Index (limit 25.5), and assessing the quality of life the OHIP-14 it was dichotomized into have presence and absence of impact. It was performed a descriptive analysis and used the chi-square rejection level of 5%. The mean age was 42 years. The DMFT was 18.55 (+6.7), with an average of 1.6 decayed teeth (+1.8), missed 8.6 (+6.5), and filled 8.2 (+5.1). Tooth loss was associated with functional impairment (p=0.013), psychological distress (p=0.017), physical disability (p=0.002) and disability social (p= 0.036). The group of high caries experience was associated with physical disability (p=0.004) and physical impairment (p=0.025). The use of subjective indicator OHIP-14 showed that physical impairment was associated with both tooth loss as the group of high caries experience, an important tool to measure the impact of oral health on quality of life.

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saúde bucal adulto inquéritos epidemiológicos oral health adult health surveys

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