title: Oral health related to quality of life in patients with stomatological diseases.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To describe the oral health-related quality of life (OHR-QoL) in patients with stomatological diseases.
  
  
  METHODS
  All new patients seen in the Stomatology Clinic, from August 2008 to July 2009 were selected. OHR-QoL was measured using OHIP-14, in face-to-face interviews. The stomatological diseases were classified into groups according to their origin. OHIP-14 data were used to calculate two variables: prevalence and severity.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The questionnaire was completed by 113 subjects, with a mean of 53.77 years; 63.7% women; 38% of the subjects reported one or more OHR-QoL impacts "fairly often" or "very often" in the last 6 months. The overall result of OHIP-14 index showed a mean of 14.35 (+/-12.01). There was no statistical significance between the stomatological disease groups and the prevalence scores (p=0.25) and mean severity scores (p=0.57).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  It seems that bad oral conditions affected quality of life of these patients, especially physical pain and psychological discomfort.
authors.forename: Carolina Amalia Barcellos
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Silva
authors.forename: Liliane Janete
authors.initials: LJ
authors.lastname: Grando
authors.forename: Sonia Maria Luckmann
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Fabro
authors.affiliation: Campus Universitário João Davi Ferreira Lima, Bairro Trindade 88040-970, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil. alfm@terra.com.br.
authors.forename: Ana Lucia Schaefer Ferreira
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: de Mello
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009059:Mouth Diseases; D009909:Oral Health; D011788:Quality of Life; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires