BRIEF RESEARCH REPORT article
Front. Oral Health
Sec. Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
Oral health-related quality of life and dental occlusion before and after alveolar and hard palate reconstruction at the time of mixed dentition
Provisionally accepted
Hilda González-Olivares1
KATHRINE JAUREGUI-RENAUD*- Mexican Social Security Institute, Mexico City, Mexico
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Aim. In children 8 to 10 years old with not syndromic cleft lip and palate (nsCLP) and intentionally unrepaired nasoalveolar fistula, to assess the difference in oral health-related quality of life before and 6 months after the reconstruction, compared to age matched children with no birth abnormalities, considering dental occlusion. Methods. 52 children participated in the study, 26 with nsCLP and 26 with no birth abnormalities. At inclusion in the study, dental occlusion was assessed by the Angle classification and the Dental Aesthetic Index in all the participants, and also by the GOSLON yardstick index in participants with nsCLP. Oral health-related quality of life was evaluated by the Child Perceptions Questionnaire (CPQ8-10) twice, with 6 months in between. Bivariate and repeated measures multivariate analyses were performed with p ≤0.05. Results. In participants with/ without nsCLP, oral-health related quality of life was significantly related to dental occlusion and to age. In participants with nsCLP, after reconstruction, quality of life improved mainly on the emotional and social well-being domains, with influence and interaction between age and dental occlusion. . Comment. In children with nsCLP and intentionally unrepaired nasoalveolar fistula, the earliest possible repair could be beneficial for their emotional and social well-being. To start prompt orthopaedic treatment, early evaluation of dental occlusion should be promoted in both children with and without nsCLP.
Keywords: Cleft Palate, Dental Occlusion, Oral-health related quality of life, Mixed dentition, nasoalveolar fistula
Received: 18 Jul 2025; Accepted: 28 Oct 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 González-Olivares1 and JAUREGUI-RENAUD. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: KATHRINE JAUREGUI-RENAUD, kathrine.jauregui@imss.gob.mx
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