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Painful gums/mouth sore
Dental pain

Di culty performing daily tasks
Felt tense
Di culty eating
Felt embarrassed

Avoiding social activities 55–74 years
Avoiding conversations 35–54 years
Avoding smiling/laughing 18–34 years
0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35%

Figure 1: Proportion of adults aged 18–74 years who were occasionally 53
or more often limited in their daily lives due to oral and/or dental
problems, by age.

Painful gums/mouth sore
Dental pain
Di culty performing daily tasks
Felt tense
Di culty eating oral health-related quality of life in the adult population of slovenia in 2019

Felt embarrassed
Avoiding social activities
At least tertiary education
Avoiding conversations Secondary education
Avoiding smiling/laughing Primary education or less

0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35%
Figure 2: Proportion of adults aged 18–74 years who were occasionally
or more often limited in their daily lives due to oral and/or dental
problems, by education.
A higher proportion of adults with lower levels of education reported be-
ing occasionally or more often limited in their daily lives by oral and/or dental
problems (Figure 2), with statistically significant differences by education lev-
el only for the following statements: difficulty eating (χ test=11.388, p=0.003);
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difficulty performing daily tasks (χ test=8.251, p=0.016); and dental pain (χ
2
2
test=6.491, p=0.039). Similarly, adults with a higher level of education (at least
upper secondary school) were less likely to report problems in social inter-
actions than adults with a lower level of education (primary school or less).
Thus, there were statistically significant differences between the proportions