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Herodotus Look After The Quality Of Life Of Patients

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The first evidence of researchers looking after the quality of life of patients is what was mentioned by Herodotus who lived around 450 BC when he visited Egypt is that Egyptian physicians only treat the disease without paying attention to the patient as a whole. When Herodotus had returned to Greece he evaluated the medical service there .surprisingly it was different from what Egyptian physicians were offering the patients. Greek physicians applied different model more holistic approach, the treatment by multidisciplinary team aimed to treat the patients as a whole. At hospitals dramas and tragedies plays were presented to the patients at hospital theatres, such approach would alleviate and distract the patients from their symptoms while …show more content…

Oral health related quality of life (OHRQOL) defined as an individual assessment of how the functional and psychosocial factors affect the wellbeing ,discomfort and pain that patient experience in relation to orofacial concerns (Slade,1997). Lately there is a change from traditional clinical dental/medical criteria such as caries and malocclusion to more patient centric oral health delivery systems that focus on a person social, emotional and physical experience (Sischo & Broder, 2011). Oral health related quality of life helps in making clinical decision unlike the past when the dentist used only to think about the best treatment for the patients neglecting patients’ desire and emotional and physical needs (Jokovic et al, …show more content…

However, patient expectations before, during and after treatment are known to differ greatly. Malocclusion is the most common oral disorder which can cause negative impacts on social life and self-confidence and may be greatly associated with negative psychological connotations (Masood, 2013).
Orthodontic treatment of a malocclusion from a purely clinical perspective may not address patients’ concerns. Patients and their parents have been shown to share similar expectations of orthodontic treatment in most aspects, although parents seem to have more realistic expectations in their estimated duration of treatment at the initial visit. Ethnicity was shown to significantly influence expectations for the outcome of orthodontic treatment, and this may relate to differences in the patients' and parents' assessment of the outcome of care (Sayers & Newton, 2007).
Some researchers have shown that orthodontic treatment using fixed appliances resulted in a significantly improved quality of life after two years of treatment (Navabi et al., 2012; Feu et al., 2013). On the other hand, other authors concluded that orthodontic treatment using fixed appliances significantly worsen the OHRQOL scores during treatment (Costa, 2011), and 24 hours following their insertion (Hanizar et al,

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