Preliminary study of the assessment of health-related quality of life in orthognathic patients / 重庆医科大学学报

ABSTRACT

Objective:To assess the health-related quality of life in orthognathic treatment by questionnaires,investigate the ef-fect of orthognathic surgery to orthognathic health-related quality of life,and provide reference for clinical orthognathic treat-ment.Methods:58 patients receiving orthognathic treatment were assessed with reformed orthognathic quality of life questionnaire(OQLQ)at three times,which were one week before orthodontic appliance implantation(T1),one week before surger(yT2),and one week after treatment(T3).All the results were statistically analyzed with PEMS3.1 software package.Result:Factors of HRQOL score,facial esthetics,oral function,social aspects in T3 were significantly lower than in T1 and T2(P