Impact of severe early childhood caries on children's oral health related quality of life
QIU Rong-min
JIANG Rui
LI Ren-long
TANG Jian-jia
JIANG Jie
LIU Tao
OU Ming-hang
Abstract：AIM:To explore the impact of severe early childhood caries (S-ECC) on children's oral health related quality of life OHRQoL.METHODS:190 children were randomly selected from the patients in the clinic.The subjects were divided into the S-ECC group (n=95) and the carious free group(CF, n=95).Oral exams were conducted and a Chinese language version of the Early Childhood Oral Health Impact Scale (ECOHIS) was used to assess children's OHRQoL of the subjects.Spearman's rank correlation coefficient was calculated to evaluate the association between dental caries and ECOHIS.RESULTS:The total score of ECOHIS, scores of 2 aspects and 6 domains of the S-ECC group were statistically higher than those of CF group (P<0.05), and were positively correlated to the values of decayed teeth and surfaces.The impact of S-ECC on OHRQoL was mainly on the 3 domains of oral symptom, oral function and the parent's guilty.CONCLUSION:OHRQoL of children with S-ECC is poor, and it requires high levels of attention.Dental care of S-ECC children is highly recommended to improve their OHRQoL.
Keywords：children's oral health related quality of lifesevere early childhood cariesearly childhood oral health impact scale
Publication Date：2017-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：5( 471-474,487 )