1. Oral health-related quality of life, adaptation/discomfort during open bite treatment with spurs: complementary analysis from a randomized clinical trial
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Aron Aliaga-Del Castillo, Guido Artemio Marañón-Vásquez, Guilherme Janson, Lorena Vilanova, Felicia Miranda, Camila Massaro, Silvio Augusto Bellini-Pereira, Luis Ernesto Arriola-Guillén, Marilia Yatabe, Antonio Carlos Ruellas, Lucia Cevidanes, and Daniela Garib
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Medicine ,Science - Abstract
Abstract This single-center trial aimed to longitudinally compare the oral health-related quality of life (OHRQOL), adaptation and discomfort during anterior open bite (AOB) treatment with lingual spurs and build-ups (SBU) versus spurs only (S) approaches. Children (7–11 years) with AOB were randomly allocated into two treatment groups (SBU or S). The Child Perception Questionnaire (CPQ8–10) was applied 1 and 12 months after installation of the appliances. Questionnaires evaluating functional adaptation and discomfort during the first month of treatment were also applied. A visual analog scale (VAS) was used in these questionnaires. Generalized mixed models were used for analyzing OHRQOL and discomfort data. Generalized linear models were used to assess adaptation outcomes (α = 0.05). The SBU group included 24 patients (7 males and 17 females; mean age 8.2 years) and the S group included 25 patients (11 males and 14 females; mean age 8.3 years). Regardless of the treatment type, overall OHRQOL scores at 12 months were 0.69 times those recorded at 1 month after the appliances installation (i.e., ~ 31% reduction; exp (β) = 0.69; 95% CI: 0.55, 0.88). A significant interaction between treatment and time was detected for the ‘functional limitations’ domain. For this domain, a significant improvement from the first to the twelfth month was observed in the S group (P
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- 2024
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