Oral Health & Quality of Life in preadolescents with hearing impairment in Uttarakhand, India.

ABSTRACT:

Background

"Better teeth better health" is a guiding dictum for the 21st century that has been well adopted by WHO and emulated world over by numerous health care agencies. Hence its of paramount importance to assess the impact of oral health on the quality of life. Keeping this in mind the present study was done to gauge the impact of prevalence of dental diseases amongst 9-15 year old institutionalized hearing impaired children in districts of Uttarakhand, India.

Materials & methodology

250 hearing impaired institutionalized 9-15 year old children were examined using WHO type III clinical examination for DMFT/dmft, Traumatic dental injuries using TDI index and dentofacial anomalies using Angle's classification of malocclusion. The Hindi version of the C-OIDP questionnaire

SUBMITTER: Singh A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6439272 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr-Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature