Avaliação do impacto do clareamento dental na qualidade de vida de pacientes adultos / Evaluation of the impact of dental bleaching on the quality of life of adult patients / Evaluación del impacto del blanqueamiento dental en la calidad de vida de pacientes adultos

Objetivo: este trabalho teve como objetivo avaliar o impacto do clareamento dental profissional na qualidade de vida de pacientes. Método: foram selecionados 40 pacientes em tratamento de clareamento dental de consultório com peróxido de hidrogênio a 35%, e que atenderam a critérios específicos de inclusão e exclusão. Para determinar o impacto do clareamento dental na qualidade de vida dos pacientes, foi aplicado o questionário OHIP-14, contendo 14 perguntas divididas em 7 domínios avaliando os aspectos: limitação funcional, dor física, desconforto psicológico, incapacidade física, incapacidade psicológica, incapacidade social e desvantagem social, antes do inicio e 30 dias após finalizado o clareamento dental. Resultados: os escore total do Ohip-14 e dos domínios foram comparados nos dois momentos (antes e após o clareamento), por meio do teste de Wilcoxon, que não mostrou diferencia significante (p<0.05%), para todos os domínios, com exceção do domínio desconforto psicológico no qual foi observado uma diminuição de impacto após o procedimento clareador. Conclusão: o OHIP 14 mostrou que o procedimento clareador favorece a estética dos indivíduos, melhorando sua qualidade de vida e, diminuindo assim, o estresse frente aos impactos psicológicos em sociedade.(AU)

Objective: this study aimed to evaluate the impact of professional tooth bleaching on patients' quality of life. Methods: a total of 40 patients were selected in the treatment of office tooth bleaching with 35% hydrogen peroxide, which met specific inclusion and exclusion criteria. To determine the impact of dental bleaching on patients' quality of life, the OHIP-14 questionnaire was used, containing 14 questions divided into 7 domains assessing aspects: functional limitation, physical pain, psychological discomfort, physical incapacity, psychological incapacity, social incapacity and social disadvantage, before the beginning and 30 days after dental bleaching was completed. Results: the total Ohip-14 score and domains were compared at both time points (before and after bleaching) using the Wilcoxon test, which showed no significant difference (p <0.05%) for all domains, except for the psychological discomfort domain in which a reduction in impact was observed after the bleaching procedure. Conclusion: OHIP-14 showed that the bleaching procedure favors the aesthetics of individuals, improving their quality of life, thus reducing the stress on the psychological impacts on society.(AU)

Objetivo: este trabajo tuvo como objetivo evaluar el impacto del blanqueamiento dental profesional en la calidad de vida de pacientes. Métodos: se seleccionaron 40 pacientes en tratamiento de blanqueamiento dental de consultorio con peróxido de hidrógeno al 35%, y que atendieron a criterios específicos de inclusión y exclusión. Para determinar el impacto del blanqueamiento dental en la calidad de vida de los pacientes, se aplicó el cuestionario OHIP-14, conteniendo 14 preguntas divididas en 7 áreas evaluando los aspectos: limitación funcional, dolor físico, incomodidad psicológica, incapacidad física, incapacidad psicológica, incapacidad social y desventaja social, antes del inicio y 30 días después de finalizado el blanqueamiento dental. Resultados: los puntajes totales del Ohip-14 y de los dominios fueron comparados en los dos momentos (antes y después del blanqueamiento), por medio de la prueba de Wilcoxon, que no mostró diferencia significante (p <0.05%), para todos los dominios, excepción del dominio de incomodidad psicológica donde se observó una disminución de impacto después del procedimiento blanqueador. Conclusión: el OHIP-14 mostró que el procedimiento blanqueador, favorece la estética de los individuos mejorando, su calidad de vida disminuyendo así el estrés frente a los impactos psicológicos en sociedad.(AU)

Dental esthetic satisfaction, received and desired dental treatments for improvement of esthetics.

Aim: The purposes of this research were to investigate factors influencing patients' satisfaction with their present dental esthetic, received previous dental treatments on anterior teeth and basic treatments that they wanted to undergo to improve their dental appearance. Materials and Methods: A total of 1014 patients who attended a dental school in a major city in Turkey participated in the study. The participants were surveyed with a questionnaire containing questions about gender, age, education level, self-reported tooth appearance, received previous dental treatments on anterior teeth and desired basic esthetic dental treatments. Statistical analysis of the verifying data was made with descriptive statistics, χ2 test and multiple logistic regression analyses. Results: According to the analyses of the verifying data, 55.1% of the patients were dissatisfied with the color of their teeth, 42.7% with dental appearance, 29.9% with crowding of anterior teeth, 23.3% were hiding teeth while smiling, 16.1% had non-esthetic restorations and 11.9% thought that their anterior teeth were protruding. Esthetic restoration was found to be the most-performed treatment recently (29.0%) and whitening of teeth was the most-desired dental treatment (49.0%). Gender, age and education level had an effect on satisfaction and received previous and desired dental treatments for improvement of esthetics. Conclusion: Many of the Turkish patients surveyed in the study were dissatisfied and desired the improvement of dental esthetics. Therefore, dentists should consider this as an important dimension in their practice.