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      Changes in the Oral Health-Related Quality of Life in Infants With Cleft Lip and/or Palate Before and After Surgical Treatment
    
    
  
  
    Date Issued
  
  
  
    
    
      01 January 2022
    
    
  
  
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      open access
    
  
  
    Resource Type
  
  
    
      journal article
    
  
  
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  SAGE Publications Ltd
  
    Abstract
  
  
  
   
    
    
      
    
 
    
 
  
  
        
        Objective: To assess oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) changes before and after the primary surgical treatment in infants with cleft lip and/or palate (CL/P). Design: Quasi-experimental study. Methods: A total of 106 infants with CL/P younger than 2 years undergoing primary surgical treatment in the Plastic Surgery Service of the Instituto Nacional de Salud del NiƱo in Peru. The parent/caregiver answered a questionnaire about OHRQoL named the Peruvian version of the Early Childhood Oral Health Impact Scale (P-ECOHIS) in the pretreatment (baseline) and follow-up post-treatment. The total score of P-ECOHIS and their 2 sections (child impact and family impact) in the baseline and each follow-up period post-treatment scores were assessed. As well as, the type of the CL/P on OHRQoL, standardized effect sizes (ES) based on mean total change scores (difference between baseline and 12th month) were analyzed. Results: Improvements in infantās OHRQoL after treatment were reflected in each follow-up period P-ECOHIS score compared to the baseline score. The total P-ECOHIS scores decreased significantly from 28.07 (baseline) to 7.7 (12th month; P <.0001), as did the individual domain scores (P <.0001). There were significant differences in the baseline and follow-up post-treatment scores of infants who reported improvement of the OHRQoL (P <.0001). The ES was large (3.79). The cleft lip had an improvement in the OHRQoL at 12th month post-treatment (P <.0001). Conclusions: Primary surgical post-treatment resulted in significant improvement of the infantās OHRQoL with CL/P.
      
    
  
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      47
    
    
  
  
    End page
  
  
  
    
    
      53
    
    
  
  
    Volume
  
  
  
    
    
      59
    
    
  
  
    Issue
  
  
  
    
    
      1
    
    
  
  
    Language
  
  
    
      English
    
  
  
    OCDE Knowledge area
  
  
    
      OdontologĆa, CirugĆa oral, Medicina oral
    
      PediatrĆa
    
  
  
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    Scopus EID
  
  
  
    
    
      2-s2.0-85101708305
    
    
  
  PubMed ID
  
  
    Source
  
  
  
    
    
      Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal
    
    
  
  
    ISSN of the container
  
  
  
    
    
      10556656
    
    
  
  
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      The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: The principal author Lopez Ramos, Roxana Patricia is a doctoral student studying an Epidemiological Research Doctorate at Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia under FONDECYT/CIENCIAACTIVA scholarship EF033-235-2015 and supported by training Grant D43 TW007393 awarded by the Fogarty International Center of the US National Institutes of Health.
    
    
  
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