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ABSTRACT: Background
"Better teeth better health" is a guiding dictum for the 21st century that has been well adopted by WHO and emulated world over by numerous health care agencies. Hence its of paramount importance to assess the impact of oral health on the quality of life. Keeping this in mind the present study was done to gauge the impact of prevalence of dental diseases amongst 9-15 year old institutionalized hearing impaired children in districts of Uttarakhand, India.Materials & methodology
250 hearing impaired institutionalized 9-15 year old children were examined using WHO type III clinical examination for DMFT/dmft, Traumatic dental injuries using TDI index and dentofacial anomalies using Angle's classification of malocclusion. The Hindi version of the C-OIDP questionnaire was used in this study.Results
There was a high dental caries prevalence of 56% with significant male predilection. TDI index was 40.8% and the most common molar relation was class I with 90.4%. With 49.6% crowding was the most common dentofacial anomaly. Deformity of face or mouth has maximum impact on the daily life of these children. The overall oral health related quality of life was less favorable in this group.Conclusion
Oral health has a significant impact on daily life of these children with hearing impairment and those children having dental diseases showed unfavorable OHRQoL.
SUBMITTER: Singh A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6439272 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr-Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Singh Aditi A Agarwal Anubha A Aeran Himanshu H Dhawan Preeti P
Journal of oral biology and craniofacial research 20190321 2
<h4>Background</h4>"Better teeth better health" is a guiding dictum for the 21st century that has been well adopted by WHO and emulated world over by numerous health care agencies. Hence its of paramount importance to assess the impact of oral health on the quality of life. Keeping this in mind the present study was done to gauge the impact of prevalence of dental diseases amongst 9-15 year old institutionalized hearing impaired children in districts of Uttarakhand, India.<h4>Materials & methodo ...[more]