Nedzinskaitė, R., Augytė, B., Smailienė, D., Vasiliauskas, A., Lopatienė, K., Zasčiurinskienė, E., & Trakinienė, G. (2024). Well-Being of Orthodontic Patients Wearing Orthodontic Appliances. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202407.1168.v1
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Nedzinskaitė, R., Eglė Zasčiurinskienė and Giedrė Trakinienė. 2024 "Well-Being of Orthodontic Patients Wearing Orthodontic Appliances" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202407.1168.v1
Abstract
Orthodontic appliances may cause discomfort for patients. It could influence person‘s psychological well–being. The aim was to examine psychological health of patients wearing orthodontic appliances. It is important to analyze well-being of patients during orthodontic treatment because it is started in a young age and it may affect one’s psychological health. Therefore, for doctors and patients it is important to understand and take every aspect of the treatment into consideration when deciding when to start the treatment and what appliance to choose. 339 patients answered anonymous questionnaire. They were divided into four groups according to their age and type of appliance. Main reasons to seek treatment were crooked teeth and bad bite. Statistically signifi-cant difference was between women and men as women seeked treatment because of crooked teeth, meanwhile men indicated bad bite as main reason. 48.7% of subjects noted that they were feeling good during treatment, however, 4% of all patients noted that they were feeling bad. 45% of subjects stated that they felt unhappy at least sometimes. 43% of subjects felt stress. Even though patients indicated various negative aspects on their well-being during treatment, for the majority of the subjects end results significantly increased their psychological well-being.
Keywords
Health related quality of life; orthodontic appliances; malocclusion
Subject
Medicine and Pharmacology, Dentistry and Oral Surgery
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