title: Oral Health-Related Quality of Life in Children and Young Adolescent Orthodontic Cleft Patients.
abstract: 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.
  
  
  METHODS
  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.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  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.
authors.forename: Pattamawan
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Konan
authors.forename: Montian
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Manosudprasit
authors.forename: Poonsak
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Pisek
authors.forename: Araya
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pisek
authors.forename: Tasanee
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Wangsrimongkol
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002971:Cleft Lip / Q000523:psychology*; D002972:Cleft Palate / Q000523:psychology*; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009909:Oral Health; D011788:Quality of Life / Q000523:psychology*; D012649:Self Concept; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013785:Thailand