Research Article
Estimate of Impact on the Oral Health-Related Quality of Life of Older Thai People by the Provision of Dentures through the Royal Project
Table 1
Comparisons of prevalence and total mean OIDP score of oral impacts on daily performances between the groups.
| | Oral impacts | Total prevalence | Subjects with different dental status | Total mean OIDP score | value | | Edentate (Edent) | Complete denture (ECD) | Natural and replaced teeth (NRT) | Natural teeth (NT) | | (%) | (%) | (%) | (%) | (%) | Mean (±SD) |
| | Overall impacts | 297 (36.6) | 114 (68.3) | 68 (28.3) | 60 (31.7) | 55 (25.5) | | |
| | Physical performances | | | | | | | | | Eating | 220 (27.1) | 94 (56.3) | 48 (20.0) | 41 (21.7) | 37 (17.2) | 2.8 (±6.1) | <0.001 | | Speaking clearly | 97 (11.9) | 59 (35.3) | 17 (7.1) | 18 (9.5) | 3 (1.4) | 1.0 (±3.9) | <0.001 | | Cleaning mouth | 37 (4.6) | 14 (8.4) | 8 (3.3) | 4 (2.1) | 11 (5.1) | 0.4 (±2.4) | 0.027 | | Doing light activities | 10 (1.2) | 4 (2.4) | 3 (1.3) | 1 (0.5) | 2 (0.9) | 0.1 (±1.1) | 0.425 |
| | Psychological performances | | | | | | | | | Sleeping and relaxing | 49 (6.0) | 12 (7.2) | 10 (4.2) | 14 (7.4) | 13 (6.0) | 0.4 (±2.3) | 0.403 | | Smiling | 25 (3.1) | 23 (13.8) | 1 (0.4) | 1 (0.5) | 0 (0.0) | 0.3 (±2.3) | <0.001 | | Emotional stability | 74 (9.1) | 35 (21.0) | 10 (4.2) | 16 (8.5) | 13 (6.0) | 0.8 (±3.2) | <0.001 |
| | Social performances | | | | | | | | | Social contact | 49 (6.0) | 40 (24.0) | 1 (0.4) | 3 (1.6) | 5 (2.3) | 0.6 (±3.1) | <0.001 | | Total mean OIDP score (mean ± SD) | | 9.6 (±13.6) | 1.6 (±4.5) | 1.9 (±5.0) | 1.4 (±4.2) | 3.3 (±8.0) | |
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