AN INTRODUCTION TO SOME USEFUL SCALES TO MEASURE ORAL HEALTH RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE IN EARLY ADOLESCENCE (11-14 YEARS OF AGE)

It is known that clinical measures that are routinely used in dentistry are not sufficiently representative for the effects of diseases on patients' daily living just as many clinical measures in other medical subjects. consequently, “oral health related quality of life” (ohrqol) concept and measurements gained more importance nowadays. the necessity of measuring children's oral health related quality of life was also realized in recent years and today the number of studies being conducted on these populations are growing. the aim of this review is to present general information on existing criteria for oral health related quality of life measures and to introduce the most commonly used tools to evaluate oral health related quality of life in early adolescence which are the “child perceptions questionnaire 11-14” (cpq 11-14), the “child-oral impacts on daily performance” (c-oidp) and the “child oral health impact profile” (cohip).