The Effectiveness of Oral Hygiene Education on Oral Health-related Quality of Life of Adolescent Orthodontic Patients: A Review

In recent years, as the flourish of oral hygiene education, concern for oral health and aesthetic needs has significantly increased. Consequently, more and more adolescents have joined the ranks of orthodontic treatment. The oral health-related quality of life during orthodontic treatment has been increasingly valued by patients and their families. Oral hygiene education has a comprehensive positive impact on the oral health-related quality of life, including physical function, psychological function, social function et al., which makes it the focus for oral nursing surveys. Adolescents’ special physiological and psychological state renders them more prone to periodontal diseases, which means teenagers are the group that needs assistance above all. This article summarizes its current research status on the relationship between oral hygiene education and adolescent orthodontic patients’ oral health-related quality of life, also, previous evaluation scales of oral health-related quality of life for adolescents, in a bid to provide ideas for the future development of oral hygiene education.