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Aesthetics self-perception after intracoronary bleaching at 6-month follow-up.
Objectives: Evaluate the changes in self-perception of dental aesthetics in patients with intracoronary bleaching at 3-months follow-up.
Methods: 38 patients older than 18, of both genders, who were subjected to intracoronary bleaching with walking bleach technique were evaluated. OHIP- aesthetic questionnaire was applied to measure the self-perception of dental aesthetics in 4 times, before bleaching (baseline), in the week after bleaching, one month and six months after treatment. The questionnaire consists of 14 questions related to cosmetic dentistry divided into seven domains: functional limitation, physical pain, psychological discomfort, physical disability, psychological disability, social disability and handicap. The patient should respond how often a particular problem has occurred on a scale with 5 options (and their scores): very often (4), quite often (3) sometimes (2) rarely (1) never or can not (0). The scores of the 14 responses are summed, yielding values between 0 and 56 points. For comparisons between groups, the Wilcoxon test (α = 0.05) was used.
Results: The sum values (median (min:max)) were : baseline= 19 (5:38); week after bleaching= 13 (3:35); one month after treatment= 13 (2:41) and six month after bleaching= 11 (3:36). The results show that there is statistically significant difference between measuring the perception of aesthetics prior to bleaching versus the post-evaluation in all times (p<0.005).
Conclusions: Intracoronary bleaching has a positive effect on the self-perception of dental aesthetics, which is stable up to 6 months after treatment.
Methods: 38 patients older than 18, of both genders, who were subjected to intracoronary bleaching with walking bleach technique were evaluated. OHIP- aesthetic questionnaire was applied to measure the self-perception of dental aesthetics in 4 times, before bleaching (baseline), in the week after bleaching, one month and six months after treatment. The questionnaire consists of 14 questions related to cosmetic dentistry divided into seven domains: functional limitation, physical pain, psychological discomfort, physical disability, psychological disability, social disability and handicap. The patient should respond how often a particular problem has occurred on a scale with 5 options (and their scores): very often (4), quite often (3) sometimes (2) rarely (1) never or can not (0). The scores of the 14 responses are summed, yielding values between 0 and 56 points. For comparisons between groups, the Wilcoxon test (α = 0.05) was used.
Results: The sum values (median (min:max)) were : baseline= 19 (5:38); week after bleaching= 13 (3:35); one month after treatment= 13 (2:41) and six month after bleaching= 11 (3:36). The results show that there is statistically significant difference between measuring the perception of aesthetics prior to bleaching versus the post-evaluation in all times (p<0.005).
Conclusions: Intracoronary bleaching has a positive effect on the self-perception of dental aesthetics, which is stable up to 6 months after treatment.