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ReviewJournal of clinical and diagnostic research : JCDR2017

Oral Health and Quality of Life: Current Concepts.

R M Baiju, Elbe Peter, N O Varghese, Remadevi Sivaram

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Review in Journal of clinical and diagnostic research : JCDR, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 140 papers, 8 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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Who cites it

140 citing papers in PubMed, 8 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

R M BaijuAssociate Professor, Department of Periodontics, Government Dental College, Kottayam, Kerala, India.
Elbe PeterAssociate Professor, Department of Orthodontics, Government Dental College, Kottayam, Kerala, India.
N O VarghesePrincipal, Department of Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics, PMS College of Dental Sciences, Trivandrum, Kerala, India.
Remadevi SivaramProject Officer, Department of Health Poicy and Planning studies, Kerala University of Health Sciences, Trivandrum, Kerala, India.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The recognition of health related quality of life began ever since WHO expanded the definition of health in 1948. This has resulted in the paradigm shift of health and disease from a medical model to a biopsychosocial model. Oral health too denotes not merely the absence of disease but the general well being so that the person can perform functions like eating, talking and smiling and also can contribute creatively to the society. Health related quality of life is a trade-off between how long and how well people live. To explain the concept various theoretical models have been proposed, of which the conceptual model of Wilson and Cleary 1995 is a comprehensive one. Even after much research and thousands of publications the definition of oral health related quality of life is still vague. But the patient's self perception about his oral health and related life quality are significant in clinical dental practice, dental education and research. It is widely shown that oral conditions can have varied impacts on daily living. To assess this, many measures or scales are available. They differ depending on the response format, number of items, context of use and the population in which it is applied. Patient reported outcome assessment is a less developed area in clinical dentistry and research and in future it has the potential to become the primary or secondary outcome measure in clinical interventional research.

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PMID28764312
PMCPMC5535498

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