Abstract
The aim of the study was to determine oral health–related quality of life (OHRQoL) using the measures Geriatric/General Oral Health Assessment (GOHAI) and Oral Health Impact Profile (OHIP-14) in relation to missing teeth in the Polish population aged 20–79. This was a cross-sectional study carried out among 1112 randomly selected participants. The mean age was 48.72 and mean number of teeth was 20.12. Altogether, in the GOHAI, the percentage that gave a positive response to each question ranged from 3.3% to 48.0%; in the OHIP-14, these answers ranged from 2.4% to 25.1%. The GOHAI measure was statistically significant, with more grouping variables than the OHIP-14 measure. Both measures showed significant associations with gender, age, dry mouth, education, professional status, number of teeth, and upper and lower total dentures. We detected a significant relationship between oral health–related quality of life and the factors influencing the presence or absence of dentition. Missing teeth were statistically associated with GOHAI, OHIP-14, advanced age, self-reported dry mouth, lower education, higher Body Mass Index (BMI), lower professional status, diabetes, myocardial infraction, and total dentures in upper or/and lower jaws. However, edentulous individuals had two times higher risk of having an OHIP-14 score above the median. This suggests that oral health practitioners should work to prevent oral diseases that lead to tooth loss in their patients, starting from an early age.
Highlights
Oral diseases can affect people around the world during their lifetime
The World Health Organization (WHO) recognizes dental caries and periodontal disease, which are the main causes of tooth loss, as a significant public health burden [2,3]
The final sample consisted of 1112 participants, as 84 people either refused to participate in the dental examination or did not fill in the whole questionnaire
Summary
Oral diseases can affect people around the world during their lifetime. Up to 3.5 billion people can be affected by oral diseases [1]. The World Health Organization (WHO) recognizes dental caries and periodontal disease, which are the main causes of tooth loss, as a significant public health burden [2,3]. According to the Global Burden of Disease 2017, untreated dental caries in permanent teeth is the most common health condition [4]. Oral health is an integrated part of general health, and the link between them seems to be unprecedented. A connection has been drawn between tooth loss and cardiovascular disease, diabetes, stroke, high blood pressure, respiratory diseases, dementia, and mortality [5,6,7,8,9,10]
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