[The impact of dental trauma on quality of life of children and adolescents: a critical review and measurement instruments].

Dental trauma constitutes a public health problem with a marked prevalence among Brazilian children and adolescents. Furthermore, it can lead to irreparable dental loss, which makes it important to evaluate this condition using instruments of oral health related to quality of life (OHRQoL). Based on this, a review of the literature sought to expose indices that may assess the evaluation of quality of life among Brazilians with dental trauma, as well as discuss the state of the art of publications about this condition on their OHRQoL followed by a discussion of the output encountered on the subject.

Psychometric properties of the Brazilian version of the Early Childhood Oral Health Impact Scale (B-ECOHIS).

Background: Oral disorders can have a negative impact on the functional, social and psychological wellbeing of young children and their families and cause pain/discomfort for the child. Oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) has emerged as an important health outcome in clinical trials and healthcare research. The Early Childhood Oral Health Impact Scale (ECOHIS) is a proxy measure of children's OHRQoL designed to assess the negative impact of oral disorders on the quality of life of preschool children.

Using Delphi technique in a consensual curriculum for periodontics.

Periodontics has experienced several important conceptual changes in the last few decades. As such, it is important to have a periodontics curriculum built upon the expertise of specialists in that discipline and reflecting those changes. The main goal of this study was to attain a consensus, through the use of the Delphi technique, on the topics that should be included in a periodontics curriculum for undergraduate dental students.

[Cross-cultural adaptation of quality of life indices for oral health].

The aim of this study was to evaluate the cross-cultural adaptation of the main quality of life instruments related to oral health. Studies on cross-cultural adaptation of oral health-related quality of life measures were searched for in LILACS and MEDLINE. Twenty-nine articles were analyzed, identifying distinct methods for cross-cultural adaptation of oral health-related quality of life measures.