Correlations between Perceived Oral Malodor Levels and Self-Reported Oral Complaints

Objectives. Even though objective data indicating the absence of oral malodor are presented to patients, they may be skeptical about the results, possibly due to the presence of some discomfort in the oral cavity. The objective of this study was to investigate whether there is an association among...

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Main Authors: Kameyama, Atsushi, Ishii, Kurumi, Tomita, Sachiyo, Tatsuta, Chihiro, Sugiyama, Toshiko, Ishizuka, Yoichi, Takahashi, Toshiyuki, Tsunoda, Masatake
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4530242/
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spelling pubmed-45302422015-08-13 Correlations between Perceived Oral Malodor Levels and Self-Reported Oral Complaints Kameyama, Atsushi Ishii, Kurumi Tomita, Sachiyo Tatsuta, Chihiro Sugiyama, Toshiko Ishizuka, Yoichi Takahashi, Toshiyuki Tsunoda, Masatake Research Article Objectives. Even though objective data indicating the absence of oral malodor are presented to patients, they may be skeptical about the results, possibly due to the presence of some discomfort in the oral cavity. The objective of this study was to investigate whether there is an association among self-perceptions of oral malodor, oral complaints, and the actual oral malodor test result. Materials and Methods. Questions concerning self-perceptions of oral malodor and subjective intraoral symptoms were extracted from a questionnaire on oral malodor completed by 363 subjects who visited the clinic for oral malodor of Tokyo Dental College Chiba Hospital and gave consent to this study. In addition, the association of self-perception of oral malodor with values obtained after organoleptic and OralChroma measurement was analyzed. Results. No correlation between 195 subjects (54%) who were judged “with oral malodor” (organoleptic score of ≥1) and 294 subjects (81.6%) who had a self-perceptions of oral malodor was observed. Self-perception of oral malodor was significantly correlated with tongue coating (p = 0.002) and a strange intraoral taste (p = 0.016). Conclusions. Subjects with a self-perception of oral malodor were not necessarily consistent with those actually having an oral malodor. In addition, it was suggested that patients became aware of oral malodor when they felt oral complaints. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015 2015-07-27 /pmc/articles/PMC4530242/ /pubmed/26273303 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/343527 Text en Copyright © 2015 Atsushi Kameyama et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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author Kameyama, Atsushi
Ishii, Kurumi
Tomita, Sachiyo
Tatsuta, Chihiro
Sugiyama, Toshiko
Ishizuka, Yoichi
Takahashi, Toshiyuki
Tsunoda, Masatake
spellingShingle Kameyama, Atsushi
Ishii, Kurumi
Tomita, Sachiyo
Tatsuta, Chihiro
Sugiyama, Toshiko
Ishizuka, Yoichi
Takahashi, Toshiyuki
Tsunoda, Masatake
Correlations between Perceived Oral Malodor Levels and Self-Reported Oral Complaints
author_facet Kameyama, Atsushi
Ishii, Kurumi
Tomita, Sachiyo
Tatsuta, Chihiro
Sugiyama, Toshiko
Ishizuka, Yoichi
Takahashi, Toshiyuki
Tsunoda, Masatake
author_sort Kameyama, Atsushi
title Correlations between Perceived Oral Malodor Levels and Self-Reported Oral Complaints
title_short Correlations between Perceived Oral Malodor Levels and Self-Reported Oral Complaints
title_full Correlations between Perceived Oral Malodor Levels and Self-Reported Oral Complaints
title_fullStr Correlations between Perceived Oral Malodor Levels and Self-Reported Oral Complaints
title_full_unstemmed Correlations between Perceived Oral Malodor Levels and Self-Reported Oral Complaints
title_sort correlations between perceived oral malodor levels and self-reported oral complaints
description Objectives. Even though objective data indicating the absence of oral malodor are presented to patients, they may be skeptical about the results, possibly due to the presence of some discomfort in the oral cavity. The objective of this study was to investigate whether there is an association among self-perceptions of oral malodor, oral complaints, and the actual oral malodor test result. Materials and Methods. Questions concerning self-perceptions of oral malodor and subjective intraoral symptoms were extracted from a questionnaire on oral malodor completed by 363 subjects who visited the clinic for oral malodor of Tokyo Dental College Chiba Hospital and gave consent to this study. In addition, the association of self-perception of oral malodor with values obtained after organoleptic and OralChroma measurement was analyzed. Results. No correlation between 195 subjects (54%) who were judged “with oral malodor” (organoleptic score of ≥1) and 294 subjects (81.6%) who had a self-perceptions of oral malodor was observed. Self-perception of oral malodor was significantly correlated with tongue coating (p = 0.002) and a strange intraoral taste (p = 0.016). Conclusions. Subjects with a self-perception of oral malodor were not necessarily consistent with those actually having an oral malodor. In addition, it was suggested that patients became aware of oral malodor when they felt oral complaints.
publisher Hindawi Publishing Corporation
publishDate 2015
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4530242/
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