Impact of Awareness Obtained from Studying Dentistry on Oral Health-Related Quality of Life at Shahid Beheshti University

Background: today, the impact of oral health on indicators of quality of life is of great importance. as few studies have evaluated dental students who are future dentists of a society, this study was performed to assess the impact of awareness on oral health-related quality of life on first, third- and sixth-year shahid beheshti dental students in 2017-2018. methods: this descriptive cross-sectional and analytical study was conducted on 220 shahid beheshti dental students. the required data was collected by using a sociodemographic questionnaire (including gender, academic year indicating level of awareness, and gpa) and persian version of oral health-related quality of life questionnaire, ohip-14. the questionnaires’ scores were compared by one-way analysis of variance (anova) or welch’s t-test. results: the average total score of ohip-14 questionnaire in dental students was 8.26 (sd=7.41). a significant relationship between the academic year and oral health-related quality of life was not noticed except in “psychological discomfort” domain where oral healthrelated quality of life deteriorated with an increase in the academic year (p=0.0001). conclusion: oral health-related quality of life in dental students did not change significantly with an increase in the academic year except in “psychological discomfort” domain.