Impact of Traumatic Dental Injuries with Occlusion Status on Quality of Life of 3-5 Aged Children & their Families

Document Type : مقاله‌های پژوهشی

Authors

1 Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatric Dentistry, School of Dentistry, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan (Khorasgan) Branch, Isfahan, Iran.

2 Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatric Dentistry, School of Dentistry, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.

3 Postgraduate Student, Department of Pediatric Dentistry, School of Dentistry, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan (Khorasgan) Branch, Isfahan, Iran.

4 Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatric Dentistry, School of Dentistry, Kermanshah University, Kermanshah, Iran.

5 Dentist, Isfahan, Iran.

10.48305/v0i0.1161

Abstract

Introduction: Traumatic dental injuries and malocclusion are reasons for pain and discomfortness in children and because of close relationship between child and the family these effects are reflected in family. The aim of this study was to assess the effect of traumatic dental injuries with occlusion status on quality of life of preschool children aged 3-5 and their families in Isfahan.
Materials & Methods: In this descriptive and analytical study which is cross-sectional, the parents of 295 children (in both gender) in 4 district of Isfahan education department filled quality of life questionnaire. Also an evaluating questionnaire was filled out by a trained person. The information of occlusion status, traumatic dental injuries and quality of life , was calculated by using SPSS version 20 ,descriptive and analytical statistical indexes  and by correlation between qualitive and quantitive variables were  analyzed by Chie-square, Mann-Whitney, T-test, One way ANOVA and LSD.
Results: Most of injured children (54.1%) had middle quality of life but most of none injured children (81.7%) had good quality of life. Oral health related quality of life in injured was significantly lower none injured (p value < 0/001). The quality of life̕s mean in Distal Step group was significantly lower than other groups (p value = 0.01). The luxation and fracture injuries mean both decrease the quality of life. There is not a significant difference between fracture and luxation injuries in lowering the quality of life (p value = 0.904).
Conclusion: Result of this study showed that dental trauma and malocclusion are causes of decreasing quality of life of children and their families. Age, gender, economical and educational factors did not have any correlation of trauma and malocclusion.
Key words: Traumatic dental injury (TDI), Occlusion status, Pre-school children.

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