Aditi Singh1, Anubha Agarwal2, Himanshu Aeran3, Preeti Dhawan1. 1. Department of Paedodontics and Preventive Dentistry, Seema Dental College and Hospital, Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, India. 2. Department of Hospital Administration, AIIMS Rishikesh, India. 3. Department of Prosthodontics, Seema Dental College & Hospital, Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, India.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: "Better teeth better health" is a guiding dictum for the 21st century that has been well adopted by WHO and emulated world over by numerous health care agencies. Hence its of paramount importance to assess the impact of oral health on the quality of life. Keeping this in mind the present study was done to gauge the impact of prevalence of dental diseases amongst 9-15 year old institutionalized hearing impaired children in districts of Uttarakhand, India. MATERIALS & METHODOLOGY: 250 hearing impaired institutionalized 9-15 year old children were examined using WHO type III clinical examination for DMFT/dmft, Traumatic dental injuries using TDI index and dentofacial anomalies using Angle's classification of malocclusion. The Hindi version of the C-OIDP questionnaire was used in this study. RESULTS: There was a high dental caries prevalence of 56% with significant male predilection. TDI index was 40.8% and the most common molar relation was class I with 90.4%. With 49.6% crowding was the most common dentofacial anomaly. Deformity of face or mouth has maximum impact on the daily life of these children. The overall oral health related quality of life was less favorable in this group. CONCLUSION: Oral health has a significant impact on daily life of these children with hearing impairment and those children having dental diseases showed unfavorable OHRQoL.
BACKGROUND: "Better teeth better health" is a guiding dictum for the 21st century that has been well adopted by WHO and emulated world over by numerous health care agencies. Hence its of paramount importance to assess the impact of oral health on the quality of life. Keeping this in mind the present study was done to gauge the impact of prevalence of dental diseases amongst 9-15 year old institutionalized hearing impaired children in districts of Uttarakhand, India. MATERIALS & METHODOLOGY: 250 hearing impaired institutionalized 9-15 year old children were examined using WHO type III clinical examination for DMFT/dmft, Traumatic dental injuries using TDI index and dentofacial anomalies using Angle's classification of malocclusion. The Hindi version of the C-OIDP questionnaire was used in this study. RESULTS: There was a high dental caries prevalence of 56% with significant male predilection. TDI index was 40.8% and the most common molar relation was class I with 90.4%. With 49.6% crowding was the most common dentofacial anomaly. Deformity of face or mouth has maximum impact on the daily life of these children. The overall oral health related quality of life was less favorable in this group. CONCLUSION: Oral health has a significant impact on daily life of these children with hearing impairment and those children having dental diseases showed unfavorable OHRQoL.
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Keywords:
C-OIDP; DMFT index; Dentofacial anomalies; Hindi version of C-OIDP; Preadolescents with hearing impairment; TDI index