Produção Nacional
Revisado por pares
Preadolescent’s oral health-related quality of life during the first month of fixed orthodontic appliance therapy
2013; SAGE Publishing; Volume: 40; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1179/1465313313y.0000000053
ISSN1465-3133
AutoresLucas Guimarães Abreu, Elizabeth Maria Bastos Lages, Mauro Henrique Nogueira Guimarães de Abreu, Luciano José Pereira, Saul Martins Paiva,
Tópico(s)Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics
ResumoObjectives: To evaluate preadolescent oral health related quality of life (OHRQoL) during the first month of fixed orthodontic appliance therapy.Design: Descriptive study.Setting: The Department of Pediatric Dentistry and Orthodontics at Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.Participants: This study included a sample of 96 preadolescent children aged between 11 and 12 years undergoing orthodontic treatment with a fixed appliance.Methods: Preadolescent children were required to answer the short form of the Brazilian version of the Child Perceptions Questionnaire (CPQ11–14) before treatment (T0) and 1 month after placement of the fixed appliance (T1). Statistical analysis was performed using the Wilcoxon signed rank test and the Bonferroni correction for the domains of CPQ11–14.Results: Out of the 96 patients originally admitted, one gave up the treatment before the placement of bands and one failed to return the second questionnaire (T1). So, a sample of 94 preadolescents participated in this study, with a response rate of 97·9%. Among the 94 participants, 49 were females (52·1 %) and 45 were males (47·9 %). The mean age was 11·5 years (SD = 0·502). There was a statistically significant improvement in emotional well-being domain (P 0·013) before treatment and 1 month after the placement of fixed appliance.Conclusion: One month after the placement of fixed orthodontic appliance, the preadolescents had positive alterations in their OHRQoL mainly in the emotional well-being domain.
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