Impact of Self-Perceived Oral Conditions on Hormone Therapy Users and Non-Users

Objective: To identify the impact of self-perceived oral conditions on the quality of life of postmenopausal women under hormone therapy or not. Method: Two hundred postmenopausal women using (n=50) or not (n=150) hormone replacement therapy (HRT) were interviewed. The desired data were obtained from the simplified Oral Health Impact Profile (OHIP-14) questionnaire, which quantifies the impact levels on well being. Results: In the studied sample, 23% (n=46) were single, 60.5% (n=121) were married, 8.5% (n=17) divorced and 8% (n=16) widows. The mean age of the interviewed women was 55.32 years among HRT users and 56.64 among non-HRT users. As regards occupation, 78% (n=39) of HRT users had remunerated occupations and 22% (n=11) did not. Among the non-HRT users, 84% (n=126) had remunerated occupations and 16% (n=24) did not. Distribution of all the results for the OHIP-14 questions did not show significant difference between HRT users and non-HRT users. Among the 200 subjects, 133 (66.5%) reported no impact of oral health conditions on their quality of life; 37 of them were HRT users and 96 of them were non-HRT users Conclusion: Among the postmenopausal women under use or not HRT, evaluated in this study, there seemed to be no impact of self-perceived oral conditions on quality of life.