OBJECTIVE: To evaluate and compare the oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) in Thai patients with cleft lip and palate and to evaluate parents' and their children perceptions. MATERIAL AND METHOD: Child Oral Health Impact Profile (COHIP) questionnaire was used to evaluate OHRQoL of the patients and parents' perceptions of patients' OHRQoL. The subjects consisted of 140 cleft patients (aged 8-15 years) and their parents who visited the Department of Orthodontics, Khon Kaen University. RESULTS: COHIP scores in cleft patients were relatively high. No statistically significant differences were found for overall and subscales COHIP scores between gender and age groups (aged 8-11 and 12-15 years) of patients. Comparison among cleft types, overall COHIP and functional well-being subscales scores showed statistically significant differences (p = 0.01 and p = 0.002, respectively). Cleft lip with or without alveolus (CL/A) had higher overall and functional well-being subscale scores than unilateral and bilateral cleft lip and palate patients (CLP). Only self-image subscale scores were statistically significant differences between patients and parents at p<0.001. CONCLUSION: Young and adolescent patients with cleft lip and palate had generally positive oral health-related quality of life. Impacts of gender and age of patients on OHRQoL were similar CL/A patients had more positive in overall oral health-related quality of life and functional well-being domains than CLP patients did. Parents had higher perceptions of self-image shown by their children than the children themselves.
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate and compare the oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) in Thai patients with cleft lip and palate and to evaluate parents' and their children perceptions. MATERIAL AND METHOD:Child Oral Health Impact Profile (COHIP) questionnaire was used to evaluate OHRQoL of the patients and parents' perceptions of patients' OHRQoL. The subjects consisted of 140 cleftpatients (aged 8-15 years) and their parents who visited the Department of Orthodontics, Khon Kaen University. RESULTS: COHIP scores in cleftpatients were relatively high. No statistically significant differences were found for overall and subscales COHIP scores between gender and age groups (aged 8-11 and 12-15 years) of patients. Comparison among cleft types, overall COHIP and functional well-being subscales scores showed statistically significant differences (p = 0.01 and p = 0.002, respectively). Cleft lip with or without alveolus (CL/A) had higher overall and functional well-being subscale scores than unilateral and bilateral cleft lip and palatepatients (CLP). Only self-image subscale scores were statistically significant differences between patients and parents at p<0.001. CONCLUSION: Young and adolescent patients with cleft lip and palate had generally positive oral health-related quality of life. Impacts of gender and age of patients on OHRQoL were similar CL/A patients had more positive in overall oral health-related quality of life and functional well-being domains than CLPpatients did. Parents had higher perceptions of self-image shown by their children than the children themselves.