Impact of the severity of chronic periodontal disease on quality of life

Abstract

Abstract:We examined the impact of the severity of periodontal disease on quality of life in adults with chronic periodontitis. One hundred patients (age, 30-58 years) who were assisted at the Basic Health Care Unit in the city of Passo Fundo, RS, Brazil underwent clinical examination of all standing teeth, including gingival bleeding on probing, probing depth, and clinical attachment level, and were divided into those with mild/moderate (n = 49; group G1) and severe (n = 51; group G2) chronic periodontitis. The participants were then interviewed, using a structured questionnaire. The Brazilian Oral Health Impact Profile (OHIP-14Br) questionnaire was used to assess oral health-related quality of life. Associations were investigated, and those with a P value of less than 0.2 were tested using multiple logistic regression models. Those with a P value of 0.05 or less were considered significant. There was a significant association between G2 and education level (P = 0.00051). OHIP-14Br score was higher for G2 (24.1) than for G1 (18.2) (P = 0.0455). Severe chronic periodontitis was associated with low education level (≤8 years) (odds ratio [

Oral Health Impact Profile Scale Applied to Periodontal Disease: Relationship with Sociodemographic Variables in General Population and Clinic Samples from Monterrey, Mexico

“…The first objective posed to evaluate the capability of the OHIP-14-PD to detect differences or associations with six sociodemographic variables in two samples, one of General Population Sample (GPS) and other of dental patients with gingivitis and periodontitis (DCS). Sex and education level were independent of the total OHIP-14-PD score in both samples, as in the research by Palma et al, [8], and Meusel et al, [10], which were performed among Brazilian adults with periodontitis. In contrast, both variables did present a significant relation with the OHIP in the systematic review made by Cohen-Carneiro et al, [5], as well as only sex in the study performed by Gabardo et al, [9], in Brazilian adult general population.…”

“…We can be pointed out that the strengths of the association were weak in those studies in which a significant association was found, and this fact may explain the reason why in some research these two variables are significantly correlated and in others they were not. In turn, the relation between being a woman and the low education level is more defined with periodontitis than with the OHRQoL, so that they act as confounding factors [8,10,21]. Since the OHIP-14-PD is a scale that measures OHRQoL focused on periodontal disease, this is another possible reason to explain the independence of the two sociodemographic variables previously mentioned.…”

“…In a study using OHIP-14, it was observed that women, over 40 years of age, with lower social support, poor eating habits, smoking habits, and low income presented higher odds of having poor self-perception of oral health [9]. Besides, in another research, a significant linear association between the difficulty in pronouncing words (item of the functional limiting factor) and the education level was found among patients with severe periodontitis [10].…”

Relationship of periodontal disease and domains of oral health‐related quality of life

“…Participants with more than 5-6 sextant with pocket(s) >5.5 mm have nearly three times an OFOVO prevalence than participants without any periodontal pocket(s) (OR = 2.90, CI = 1.39; 6.50). (Carvalho, Mestrinho, Stevens, & van Wijk, 2015;Jansson et al, 2014;Meusel, Ramacciato, Motta, Brito Junior, & Florio, 2015;Palma et al, 2013) and population-level samples (Bernabe & Marcenes, 2010;Ng & Leung, 2006;White et al, 2012). The results of this study show that the impact of periodontal disease is not only on participants who attend dental clinics but also at a population level on participants who do not attend dental clinics.…”

Diet Practices, Body Mass Index, and Oral Health-Related Quality of Life in Adults with Periodontitis- A Case-Control Study

“…The periodontitis group was diagnosed using the American Academy of Periodontology 1999 criteria [22,23]. Periodontal therapy six months before attendance was considered an exclusion criterion for the periodontitis group [24,25].…”