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Title: Impact of oral rehabilitation on the quality of life of partially dentate elders in a randomized controlled clinical trial: 2 year follow-up
Authors: McKenna G.
Allen P.F. 
Hayes M.
DaMata C.
Moore C.
Cronin M.
Keywords: aged
controlled study
female
follow up
health
human
male
middle aged
partial denture
pathophysiology
physiotherapy
quality of life
questionnaire
randomized controlled trial
removable partial denture
tooth
tooth arch
Aged
Dental Arch
Denture, Partial
Denture, Partial, Removable
Female
Follow-Up Studies
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Oral Health
Physical Therapy Modalities
Quality of Life
Surveys and Questionnaires
Tooth
Issue Date: 2018
Citation: McKenna G., Allen P.F., Hayes M., DaMata C., Moore C., Cronin M. (2018). Impact of oral rehabilitation on the quality of life of partially dentate elders in a randomized controlled clinical trial: 2 year follow-up. PLoS ONE 13 (10) : e0203349. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0203349
Rights: Attribution 4.0 International
Abstract: Objective This randomised clinical trial aimed to compare the impact of two different tooth replacement strategies for partially dentate older patients namely; removable partial dentures (RPDs) and functionally orientated treatment based on the shortened dental arch (SDA) concept, on Oral Health-related Quality of Life (OHrQOL). Methods 89 patients completed a randomised clinical trial. Patients were recruited in two centres: Cork University Dental Hospital (CUDH) and a Geriatric Day Hospital (SFDH). 44 patients were randomly allocated to the RPD group and 45 to the SDA group where adhesive bridgework was used to provide 10 pairs of occluding contacts. The impact of treatment on OHr-QOL was used as the primary outcome measure. Each patient completed the Oral Health Impact Profile (OHIP-14) at baseline, 1, 6, 12 and 24 months after treatment. Results Both treatment groups reported improvements in OHIP-14 scores at 24 months (p<0.05). For the SDA group OHIP-14 scores improved by 8.0 scale points at 12 months (p<0.001) and 5.9 scale points at 24 months (p<0.05). For the RPD group OHIP-14 scores improved by 5.7 scale points at 12 months (p<0.05) and 4.2 scale points at 24 months (p<0.05). Analysis using ANCOVA showed that there were significant between group differences recorded in both treatment centres. 24 months after intervention the SDA group recorded better OHIP-14 scores by an average of 2.9 points in CUDH (p<0.0001) and by an average of 7.9 points in SFDH (p<0.0001) compared to the RPD group. Conclusions Patients in the SDA group maintained their improvements in OHrQOL scores throughout the 24 month study period. For the RPD group the initial improvement in OHrQOL score began to diminish after 6 months, particularly for those treated in SFDH. Thus, the benefits of functionally orientated treatment increased over time, particularly for the older, more systemically unwell cohort in SFDH. © 2018 McKenna et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Source Title: PLoS ONE
URI: https://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/161213
ISSN: 19326203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0203349
Rights: Attribution 4.0 International
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