ReviewQuality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation2014
Thirty years of portraying oral health through models: what have we accomplished in oral health-related quality of life research?
Review in Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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14 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Evaluation of oral health-related quality of life following pulp therapy or extraction in paediatric patients: a systematic review.European archives of paediatric dentistry : official journal of the European Academy of Paediatric Dentistry · 2026Pooled it
- Untreated dental caries complications, oral health-related quality of life, and dental service utilization among inmates in Southern Thailand.BMC oral health · 2026Article
- Bridging Gaps in Oral Health Frameworks: Mapping With Hodges' Health Career - Care Domains - Model.Journal of public health dentistry · 2026Review
- Distal and Proximal Influences on Self-Reported Oral Pain and Self-Rated Oral Health Status in Saudi Arabia: Retrospective Study Using a 2017 Nationwide Database.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2024Article
- Advancing Universal Oral Health Coverage via Person-Centred Outcomes.International dental journal · 2023Review
- A qualitative analysis of denture wearing experience affecting the quality of life of older adults.Clinical oral investigations · 2023Article
- Applying World Dental Federation Theoretical Framework for Oral Health in a General Population.International dental journal · 2022Article
- Validation of a modified version of the Spanish Geriatric Oral Health Assessment Index (GOHAI-SP) for adults and elder people.BMC oral health · 2020Article
- A systematic scoping review of oral health models.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2019Article
- A review of the oral health-related quality of life (OHRQL) model for dental hygiene: Eighteen years later.International journal of dental hygiene · 2018Article
- Impact of maxillary sinus augmentation on oral health-related quality of life.International journal of implant dentistry · 2017Article
- Quality of Life and Poor Oral Health: A Comparison of Postmenopausal Women.Dentistry journal · 2016Article
- Patterns of impaired oral health-related quality of life dimensions.Journal of oral rehabilitation · 2016Article
- Impact of malocclusion severity on oral health-related quality of life in an Iranian young adult population.European journal of dentistryArticle
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Abstract
objectivesThis paper critically examines the different models of oral health aimed at representing oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) and explores the extent to which such models changed conceptually to accommodate current theories and empirical knowledge of oral function, impairment and disability.
methodsA critical synthesis of the existing literature based on a comprehensive yet non-systematic review using Ovid-MEDLINE was performed. Full text of manuscripts available on models of oral health and OHRQoL published in English between 1 January 1950 and 30 June 2013 were identified.
resultsNineteen manuscripts were identified presenting and discussing various models of oral health and OHRQoL that are predominantly negative and linear. These models are mostly based on sick role-related theories and do not readily accommodate the biopsychosocial theories of oral health. Alternative portrayals have emerged to include positive behaviours and adaptive strategies dynamically, but have yet to influence patient care and the development of subjective OHRQoL indicators.
conclusionDespite the multitude of graphical representations of concepts, dental research has remained somewhat 'linear' in portraying the consequences of oral diseases as a one-way street. Although the conceptualization of oral health has evolved in the past 30 years, dental research still refers to it as the absence of disease in more than half a dozen models of OHRQoL focused mostly on dysfunction and disability.
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