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This study aimed to prospectively evaluate the effects of comprehensive chairside dental rehabilitation on OHRQoL in children with spastic-type CP across two age groups, and to compare outcomes with healthy controls over a 12-month follow-up period. Materials and Methods:This prospective controlled pilot study included 22 children (11 with spastic-type CP, 11 healthy controls), individually matched by age, sex, and caries index (dmft\/DMFT). Participants were divided into two subgroups based on dentition stage: the primary dentition group (n = 12; 6 CP, 6 controls; ages 4\u20136, assessed with the parent-reported ECOHIS) and the mixed dentition group (n = 10; 5 CP, 5 controls; ages 7\u201310, assessed with the POQL, which incorporates both child-reported and parent-reported forms). OHRQoL was measured at baseline, 3, 6, and 12 months. Comprehensive chairside dental rehabilitation was performed in accordance with AAPD guidelines. The Friedman test and Mann\u2013Whitney U test were used for within-group and between-group comparisons, respectively. Effect sizes (Kendall\u2019s W and r) and 95% confidence intervals were calculated for statistically significant findings. Results: Parent-reported POQL scores demonstrated statistically significant improvement over 12 months in both the CP (p = 0.004) and control (p = 0.007) groups, with the most pronounced change occurring between baseline and the 12th month. ECOHIS scores and child-reported POQL scores decreased across time points without reaching statistical significance. No significant between-group differences were detected at any time point. Conclusions: Comprehensive chairside dental rehabilitation was associated with significant improvements in parent-reported OHRQoL in both children with CP and healthy controls, whereas ECOHIS and child-reported POQL scores showed numerical improvements that did not reach significance. These findings indicate that high-functioning children with spastic-type CP can benefit from dental rehabilitation comparably to their healthy peers, though larger and more heterogeneous samples are needed to confirm and generalize these preliminary results.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/medicina62071387","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,7,20]],"date-time":"2026-07-20T00:47:32Z","timestamp":1784508452000},"page":"1387","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Impact of Dental Rehabilitation on Oral Health-Related Quality of Life in Children with Cerebral Palsy: A 12-Month Prospective Pilot Study in Two Different Age Groups"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"62","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0006-2029-8547","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Alaz Oya","family":"Erenel","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Pediatric Dentistry, Faculty of Dentistry, Eski\u015fehir Osmangazi University, Eskisehir 26040, Turkey"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8099-584X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Se\u00e7il","family":"\u00c7al\u0131\u015fkan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Pediatric Dentistry, Faculty of Dentistry, Eski\u015fehir Osmangazi University, Eskisehir 26040, Turkey"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Co\u015fkun","family":"Yarar","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Pediatric Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, Eski\u015fehir Osmangazi University, Eskisehir 26040, Turkey"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2656-5611","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Arife Derda","family":"Y\u00fccel \u015een","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Pediatric Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, Eski\u015fehir Osmangazi University, Eskisehir 26040, Turkey"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0003-4671-0964","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Sibel","family":"\u00d6zdemir","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Private Practice, Eskisehir 26040, Turkey"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,7,17]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"571","DOI":"10.1017\/S001216220500112X","article-title":"Proposed definition and classification of cerebral palsy, April 2005","volume":"47","author":"Bax","year":"2005","journal-title":"Dev. 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