Oral status assessment’s method in patients with chronic kidney disease
Aim. Designing a complex assessment questionnaire of oral status and quality of life in terms of oral health in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD). Material and method. This study is required because there are lacks of information in Romania, related to oral status of patients with chronic kidney disease – chronic renal failure, with or without nephritic syndrome, with or without dialysis. Rationale study was conducted by internationally indexed database query. The design study consists to finally obtain a questionnaire to collect medical information related to: the stage of kidney disease, main cardiac, liver, skeletal system diseases and also diabetes. All these are related with specific medication and its influence on oral cavity. There has been collected biochemistry data with relevance in chronic renal failure related to the oral status, oral symptomatology – the presence or absence of roots, toothless, the xerostomia. Also we obtain data about denture presence or absence, quality of life trough prosthetic efficiency – chewing efficiency – for hard and soft foods, esthetic satisfaction, sanitization effectiveness, necessity and effectiveness of dental treatment. The questionnaire is applied to a group of patients with renal impairment and, by comparison, to a group of patients without renal impairment. Results and conclusions. The final form of a pre-test questionnaire has been obtained. After applying the two groups of patients: were correct errors of form and were subsequently excluded sections with insufficient data, were optimize application time, readjusted methodology subjects inclusion/exclusion.