Open AccessEVALUATION OF THE IMPACT OF PAIN FROM DENTAL URGENCIES ON THE PATIENTS’ ORAL HEALTH-RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE: A CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY
Author(s) -
Angela Longo do Nascimento,
Simone Duarte,
Camila Mello dos Santos,
Theodoro Weissheimer,
Ricardo Abreu da Rosa,
Gabriel Barcelos Só,
Marcus Vinícius Reis Só
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of research in dentistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2317-5907
DOI - 10.19177/jrd.v9e220211-4
Subject(s) - quality of life (healthcare) , medicine , cross sectional study , oral health , visual analogue scale , analysis of variance , dentistry , test (biology) , rating scale , scale (ratio) , physical therapy , orthodontics , psychology , nursing , paleontology , pathology , biology , developmental psychology , physics , quantum mechanics
Background. This cross-sectional study aimed to evaluate the impact of pain from dental urgencies on the oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL).Methods. A sample of sixty-eight patients seeking urgent attention to a primary health unit were included. Clinical diagnosis and sociodemographic data were assessed, dental pain measured by visual analog scale (VAS) and numerical pain rating scale (NPRS). The Oral Health Impact Profile-14 (OHIP-14) instrument was used to measure the OHRQoL. Associations were analyzed using the Student t-test, except for types of urgencies, that were evaluated with one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) test.Results. The most prevalent urgency type was of endodontic origin (81%). There was no difference between pain and other variables. The type of tooth showed significant differences in OHIP-14 scores.Conclusion. Dental urgencies were associated with a high level of pain and impacted negatively on the patients’ OHRQoL. The type of tooth had a positive association the OHRQoL measures.