A sociodental approach to assessing children's oral health needs: integrating an oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) measure into oral health service planning

A sociodental approach to assessing children's oral health needs: integrating an oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) measure into oral health service planning

OBJECTIVE: We adopted a sociodental approach to assess the real dental needs of Thai primary school children, and integrated an oral health-related quality of life measure (OHRQoL) into oral health service planning. We then compared the results of this sociodental assessment with standard estimates...

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Main Authors: Gherunpong Sudaduang, Sheiham Aubrey, Tsakos Georgios
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The World Health Organization 2006-01-01
Series:Bulletin of the World Health Organization
Subjects:
Oral health/in infancy and childhood
Dental health services
Needs assessment
Quality of life
Child
Cohort studies
Thailand
Online Access:http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0042-96862006000100012

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