Ingrid Collin Bagewitz

Prosthodontics and Oral Health-Related Quality of Life

A Survey Study of an Adult Swedish Population, Including Inequalities in Oral Health and Dental Care Utilization

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

To lose teeth and be obliged to use removableprostheses might impact dramatically on youreveryday activities. Prosthodontics is aiming toenable the patients to eat whatever theylike, but also to make them feel sociallycomfortable with artificial teeth. However, there isan individual diversity which makes it impossible toassess the impact of tooth loss without concern forindividual attributes. The aim of this thesis was tostudy the impact of oral prostheses on oral health-related quality of life (OHRQOL). Additional aimswere to study social inequalities in oral health,attitudes towards costs for dental care and careutilization. The number of remaining teeth was moreimportant than the type of denture when explainingOHRQOL. The type of replacement, in terms of fixedor removable denture, was less important for thosewith few or no remaining teeth, than for all others.Interactions were observed between number ofremaining teeth and type of denture whenexplaining OHRQOL. As a whole the thesis shows thatsocial and dental conditions and cost for dentalcare play a great role for dental care utilizationas well as for OHRQOL.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller / VDM Verlag Dr. Müller e.K.
• Seitenzahl: 72
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 150mm x 4mm
• Gewicht: 124g
• ISBN-13: 9783639006278
• ISBN-10: 3639006275
• Artikelnr.: 25460169

Autorenporträt

Collin Bagewitz Ingrid§Senior consultant of Prosthodontics, Malmö, Sweden. Became interested in the dimension of Oral Health-Related Quality of Life at the time when dental implants entered the meny of options for edentulous patients. This also led to an interest for how dental care insurance systems impact on attitudes and possibilties to get treatment.