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ArticleHealthcare (Basel, Switzerland)2021

Pre-Operative Oral Health-Related Quality of Life in Patients Attending Surgical Removal of Mandibular Third Molar Teeth.

Itzhak Abramovitz, Evgeny Zakopay, Avraham Zini, Harry Chweidan, Daniel Balakirski, Noam E Protter, Galit Almoznino

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Article in Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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Itzhak AbramovitzDepartment of Endodontics, Faculty of Dental Medicine, Hadassah School of Dental Medicine, Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91120, Israel.
Evgeny ZakopayDepartment of Prosthodontics, Oral and Maxillofacial Center, Medical Corps, Israel Defense Forces, Tel-Hashomer 02149, Israel.
Avraham ZiniDepartment of Community Dentistry, Hadassah School of Dental Medicine, Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91120, Israel.
Harry ChweidanDepartment of Prosthodontics, Oral and Maxillofacial Center, Medical Corps, Israel Defense Forces, Tel-Hashomer 02149, Israel.
Daniel BalakirskiDepartment of Prosthodontics, Oral and Maxillofacial Center, Medical Corps, Israel Defense Forces, Tel-Hashomer 02149, Israel.
Noam E ProtterChief Dental Surgeon & Head of Forensic Unit, Medical Corps, Israel Defense, Tel-Hashomer 02149, Israel.
Galit AlmozninoDepartment of Endodontics, Faculty of Dental Medicine, Hadassah School of Dental Medicine, Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91120, Israel.ORCID 0000-0001-9671-0047

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The study aimed to measure the pre-operative oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) and to identify patient and teeth pathologies associated with worse OHRQoL among patients attending mandibular third molar tooth extraction. Data were collected preoperatively from 199 patients attending surgical removal of their mandibular third molar. To that end, we measured the Oral Health Impact Profile-14 (OHIP-14) and analyzed its association with: (1) demographics; (2) health-related behaviors such as smoking, alcohol consumption, physical activity, and dietary habits; (3) Plaque Index (PI); (4) Decay, Missing, and Filled Teeth (DMFT); and (5) clinical characteristics related to third molar extraction, such as the indication for extraction, tooth angulations, and radiographic pathology. The mean age of the study population was 21.5 ± 3.2 years and the mean OHIP-14 global score was 22.5 ± 8.3. The present study identified patient and teeth profiles that are associated with worse pre-operative OHRQoL in patients attending mandibular third molar extraction. The "vulnerable patient" profile includes poor health-related behaviors, particularly the performance of physical activity less than once a week (

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decayeddental cariesextractionfilled teethmissingoral health impact profileoral health-related quality of lifeplaque indexthird molar

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