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Gender aspects in oral health-related quality of life of oral lichen planus patients

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international journal of stomatology & occlusion medicine

Abstract

Background

The aim of the present study was to evaluate the validity of the German version of the Oral Health Impact Profile (OHIP-G) in comparison with the Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) and to evaluate whether gender has a potential influence on OHIP scores and dimensions in oral lichen planus (OLP) patients.

Methods

Patients diagnosed with OLP between 2011 and 2013 at the Department of Oral Surgery, Medical University Vienna, were included in this cross-sectional prospective study. Patients were evaluated using the Clinical Severity Index (CSI) and OHIP.

Results

Out of 62 patients, 69 % were women with a mean age of 59 ± 11 years and 31 % men with a mean age of 59 ± 15 years. The mean CSI score was 2.6 ± 1.3 in women and 2.5 ± 1.3 in men. The OHIP-G score for women was 59.42 ± 39.26 and 37.84 ± 27.15 for men. Linear regression analysis showed a significant impact of disease severity and gender on total scores, the subscore physical pain, and the dimension orofacial pain. The four additional items in the German version were significantly influenced by gender.

Conclusions

Beside clinical severity, gender influences the perception of pain significantly. Therefore pain measures should be used to compare intraindividual changes.

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  1. Division of Oral Surgery, University Clinic of Dentistry, Medical University Vienna, Sensengasse 2a, 1090, Vienna, Austria

    Gabriella Dvorak MD, DMD, Markus Hof DMD, PhD & Thomas Bernhart MD, DMD

  2. Department of Dermatology, Rudolfstiftung Hospital, KAV Vienna, Juchgasse 25, 1030, Vienna, Austria

    Babak Monshi MD & Klemens Rappersberger MD

  3. Division of Conservative Dentistry and Periodontology, Medical University Vienna, Sensengasse 2a, 1090, Vienna, Austria

    Corinna Bruckmann MD, DMD, MSc

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G. Dvorak, B. Monshi, M. Hof, T. Bernhart, C. Bruckmann, and K. Rappersberger state that there are no conflicts of interest. All studies on humans described in the present manuscript were carried out with the approval of the responsible ethics committee and in accordance with national law and the Helsinki Declaration of 1975 (in its current, revised form). Informed consent was obtained from all patients included in studies.

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Dvorak, G., Monshi, B., Hof, M. et al. Gender aspects in oral health-related quality of life of oral lichen planus patients. J. Stomat. Occ. Med. 8, 33–40 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12548-015-0123-9

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