title: Oral health-related quality of life after prosthetic rehabilitation in patients with oral cancer: A longitudinal study with the Liverpool Oral Rehabilitation Questionnaire version 3 and Oral Health Impact Profile-14 questionnaire.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Prosthodontic rehabilitation helps to improve the oral health-related quality of life (OHRQOL). The Liverpool Oral Rehabilitation Questionnaire (LORQ) and Oral Health Impact Profile (OHIP) are specific tools that measure OHRQOL.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  The primary objective of this study was to assess the impact of oral rehabilitation on patients' OHRQOL following treatment for cancer of oral cavity using LORQ version 3 (LORQv3) and OHIP-14 questionnaire. Secondary objectives were to identify issues specific to oral rehabilitation, patients compliance to prosthetic rehabilitation, the effect of radiation treatment on prosthetic rehabilitation, to achieve meaningful differences over a time before & after prosthetic intervention, to carryout and document specific patient-deprived problem.
  
  
  METHODS
  Seventy-five oral cancer patients were studied. Patients were asked to rate their experience of dental problems before fabrication of prosthesis and after 1 year using LORQv3 and OHIP-14. The responses were compared on Likert scale.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Patients reported with extreme problems before rehabilitation. After 1 year of prosthetic rehabilitation, there was improvement noticed in all the domain of LORQv3 and OHIP-14. Complete compliance to the use of prosthetic appliances for 1 year study period was noted. In response to the question no. 40 (LORQv3), only 15 patients who belonged to the obturator group, brought to notice the problems which were not addressed in the LORQv3 questionnaire.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The study showed that the oral cancer patients coped well and adapted to near normal oral status after prosthetic rehabilitation. This contributed to the improved overall health-related quality of life.
authors.affiliation: Department of Dental and Prosthetic Surgery, Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
authors.forename: K P
authors.initials: KP
authors.lastname: Dholam
authors.affiliation: Department of Dental and Prosthetic Surgery, Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
authors.forename: G C
authors.initials: GC
authors.lastname: Chouksey
authors.affiliation: Department of Dental and Prosthetic Surgery, Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Dugad
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009062:Mouth Neoplasms / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D009909:Oral Health / Q000193:education*; D011476:Prosthodontics; D011788:Quality of Life; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult