Immediate post-operative effects of different periodontal treatment modalities on oral health-related quality of life: a randomized clinical trial.
OBJECTIVE
Oral health-related quality of life (OHQoL) characterizes a person's perception of how oral health influences an individual's life quality. The aim of this study is to investigate how the treatment modalities may affect the immediate post-operative quality of life of patients with periodontitis.


METHODS
Sixty psychologically and socio-demographically matched periodontitis patients were randomly divided into three groups [20 non-surgical (NS), 20 surgical (SG), 20 surgical plus enamel matrix protein derivative (S+EMD)]. The OHQoL was assessed with two patient-centred outcome measures [Oral Health Impact Profile-14 (OHIP-14) and General Oral Health Assessment Index (GOHAI)] in the post-operative period of 1 week.


RESULTS
Whereas there were no differences of OHQoL at the baseline, the patients treated by surgery had reported that they had experienced a worse OHQoL compared with the NS and S+EMD groups both in the OHIP-14 and GOHA indexes (p=0.001).


CONCLUSIONS
The results of this study clearly indicated that patient perceptions on the immediate post-operative period were significantly better in the NS and S+EMD groups when compared with the SG group. These findings need to be confirmed in further studies with larger populations.
Ozcelik
Onur
O
Department of Periodontology, Faculty of Dentistry, Cukurova University, Adana, Turkey. oozcelik@cu.edu.tr
Haytac
M Cenk
MC
Seydaoglu
Gulsah
G
D001007:Anxiety / Q000523:psychology; D001294:Attitude to Health; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D003746:Dental Enamel Proteins / Q000627:therapeutic use; D012534:Dental Scaling; D003863:Depression / Q000523:psychology; D004435:Eating / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D009909:Oral Health; D010149:Postoperative Pain / Q000523:psychology; D010518:Periodontitis / Q000523:psychology / Q000601:surgery* / Q000628:therapy; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D011788:Quality of Life; D016745:Root Planing; D016037:Single-Blind Method; D013060:Speech / Q000502:physiology; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000523:psychology; D013357:Subgingival Curettage; D013524:Surgical Flaps; D016896:Treatment Outcome
D003746:Dental Enamel Proteins; C109069:enamel matrix proteins