Open AccessAssociation between oral health-related quality of life and atraumatic restorative treatment in school children: An exploratory study
Author(s) -
Janice Simpson de Paula,
Luísa Helena do Nascimento Tôrres,
Gláucia María Bovi Ambrosano,
Fábio Luiz Mialhe
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
indian journal of dental research/indian journal of dental research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.277
H-Index - 43
eISSN - 1998-3603
pISSN - 0970-9290
DOI - 10.4103/0970-9290.111249
Subject(s) - medicine , quality of life (healthcare) , wilcoxon signed rank test , dentistry , mann–whitney u test , oral health , test (biology) , exploratory research , statistical significance , nursing , paleontology , sociology , anthropology , biology
The present study's objectives were to compare the perceptions of oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) among school children presents dental caries with that of caries-free school children, and to evaluate the subjective impact of atraumatic restorative treatment (ART) on the OHRQoL of school children.