Association of Periodontitis With Oral Health Related Quality of Life

It consists of 4 different categories and 16 questions evaluating the effects of OHRQoL in positive and negative areas. These categories are as follows; symptoms (2 questions), physical status (5 questions), psychological status (5 questions), social status (4 questions) ' Questions on the OHRQoL-UK scale were scored using the Likert-type scale as 'very bad effect-score 1, bad effect-score 2, no effect-score 3, good effect-score 4, very good effect-score 5. The scores obtained from all questions were summed to give the scores of the 4 sub-categories separately and the total OHRQoL score. A higher total score indicates a higher OHRQoL.