Open AccessOral health and well-being of adolescents undergoing orthodontic treatment: perspective of the adolescents and their parents/caregivers
Author(s) -
Yasmin Pissolati Mattos,
Lucas Guimarães Abreu,
Salu Martins Paiva
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
revista estomatologia/revista estomatologâia/revista estomatología y salud
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2248-7220
pISSN - 0121-3873
DOI - 10.25100/re.v27i1.7680
Subject(s) - malocclusion , medicine , oral health , perspective (graphical) , perception , dentistry , psychology , neuroscience , artificial intelligence , computer science
Aim: To evaluate the oral health and well-being of adolescents with malocclusion who were submitted to orthodontic treatment, assessing the perspective of parents/caregivers and adolescents and to investigate the effects of orthodontic treatment among adolescents on the perception of oral health and well-being, in relation to the opinion of parents/caregivers and adolescents. Methods: Adolescents between 11 and 12 years submitted to orthodontic treatment with fixed appliances at the Federal University of Minas Gerais and their parents/caregivers participated. Adolescents and their parents/caregivers answered questions about the health of adolescents’ teeth, lips, jaws and mouth and about how the condition of adolescents’ teeth, lips, jaws or mouth affects adolescents overall life or well-being before orthodontic treatment onset and 12 months after fixed appliances’ placement. Results: Parents had a significantly more negative perception of the impact of malocclusion on adolescents’ lives or well-being (p<0.001). Adolescents reported that their oral health improved after 12 months of orthodontic treatment (p<0.001). Adolescents also reported that their lives or well-being was significantly less affected after 12 months of orthodontic treatment (p=0.026). Parents/caregivers reported that their adolescents’ oral health improved after 12 months of orthodontic treatment (p<0.001). Parents/caregivers also reported that their adolescents’ lives or well-being was significantly less affected after 12 months of orthodontic treatment (p<0.001). Conclusion: Parents/caregivers have a more negative perception regarding the impact of malocclusion on the life and well-being of an adolescent. After 12 months of orthodontic treatment onset, parents/caregivers and adolescents considered that adolescents’ overall health and well-being had improved.
Keywords: adolescent, malocclusion, orthodontic treatment, oral health, well-being.