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(Universidad Privada Norbert Wiener, 2019-02-05) Vargas Duran, Karen Gisella; Vergara Pinto, Brenda Roxana
It is important to define the expression "oral health-related quality of life"; one of its many definitions mentions the impact that oral health has on the different activities that individuals carry out daily. The elderly are affected by various oral diseases, with tooth loss being the most common; moreover, they are a vulnerable age group in society. Therefore, the following objective was proposed: To determine the relationship between quality of life and oral health in users with removable partial dentures. The type of study conducted was observational, cross-sectional, and prospective; the sample consisted of 99 elderly individuals (PAMs), selected through probabilistic sampling. In the data collection, identification instruments were applied, including the CPOD index, IOHS, prosthesis condition index, and the Oral Health Impact Profile (OHIP-EDENT). The bivariate analysis was performed using the non-parametric Kendall’s Tau-b test for categorical and ordinal variables, with a p ≤ 0.05 and a 95% confidence interval. Our results show that 44.4% of the PAMs have regular oral health. The quality of life, as perceived by the PAMs, was good in 54.5%. Kendall’s Tau-b test yielded = -0.262 with a p = 0.004, showing a relationship between the two variables (quality of life and oral health status). Thus, it is concluded that quality of life is correlated with the oral health status of PAMs.