Impact on quality of life restoration of different types in full edentulism patients

Oral health-related quality of life characterizes a person's perception of how oral health influences an individual's life quality and overall well being.Since the concept of quality of life associated with oral health, effect of oral health on quality of life has been investigated in several studies. Recently, these studies are also increasing. The aim of this study is the observation effect of oral health on quality of life of patients were applied different types of prosthetic restoration in full edentulism. This concept has received a lot of attention in the past two decades from sociologists, psychologists and the health professions, with different instruments has been developed to measure oral health-related quality of life. The oral health impact profile - 14 (OHIP) is a spesific oral health related quality of life instrument used to measure subjects perception of the social impact of oral disorders on their well being. Therefore, OHIP-14 scale is used in this study. This study is a retrospective investigation, that applied on patients, who have prosthetic therapy in İstanbul Aydin University Faculty of Dentistry, Prosthodontic Department.The OHIP-14 records of 204 patients were taken for this aim. When the results are examined it is determined that, dental implant application is found to improve patients OHRQoL. The scores between different prosthetic rehabilitation groups showed statistically significant differences.