Table 1. One-factor solution for 46 OHIP items not referring to dentures specifically for all subjects combined, and separately for general population subjects and patients, and subjects in six participating countries.

OHIP item		All	General Population	Patients	Croatia	Germany	Hungary	Japan	Slovenia	Sweden
		N=5146	N=3152	N=1994	N=190	N=2312	N=830	N=622	N=415	N=777
				Loadings*
1.	Difficulty chewing	.76	.74	.68	.51	.76	.77	.76	.75	.75
2.	Trouble pronouncing words	.76	.75	.69	.63	.76	.69	.74	.81	.77
3.	Noticed tooth which doesn't look right	.59	.56	.54	.06	.60	.62	.57	.55	.76
4.	Appearance affected	.71	.68	.66	.40	.76	.60	.71	.72	.76
5.	Breath stale	.59	.60	.53	.47	.60	.58	.57	.61	.54
6.	Taste worse	.74	.76	.67	.62	.73	.64	.73	.76	.73
7.	Food catching	.55	.49	.50	.47	.54	.55	.55	.52	.52
8.	Digestion worse	.75	.76	.72	.58	.71	.76	.79	.80	.72
10.	Painful aching	.71	.71	.63	.56	.74	.69	.69	.68	.72
11.	Sore jaw	.66	.70	.54	.68	.71	.69	.55	.60	.70
12.	Headaches	.61	.62	.61	.65	.72	.60	.69	.69	.51
13.	Sensitive teeth	.49	.50	.48	.06	.58	.47	.49	.46	.52
14.	Toothache	.62	.64	.57	.12	.63	.69	.65	.62	.70
15.	Painful gums	.65	.63	.58	.41	.66	.57	.66	.60	.72
16.	Uncomfortable to eat	.80	.79	.75	.57	.81	.83	.83	.83	.80
17.	Sore spots	.65	.66	.58	.50	.67	.66	.67	.63	.72
19.	Worried	.74	.68	.73	.69	.78	.68	.75	.77	.78
20.	Self-conscious	.78	.78	.73	.52	.81	.85	.77	.61	.87
21.	Miserable	.84	.86	.79	.71	.84	.84	.80	.81	.91
22.	Uncomfortable about appearance	.82	.82	.76	.69	.80	.89	.72	.78	.87
23.	Tense	.83	.84	.80	.72	.83	.88	.85	.86	.83
24.	Speech unclear	.80	.80	.73	.65	.81	.73	.80	.82	.80
25.	Others misunderstood	.77	.77	.71	.60	.80	.64	.77	.74	.74
26.	Less flavor in food	.78	.77	.74	.79	.77	.65	.78	.78	.78
27.	Unable to brush teeth	.75	.76	.66	.64	.77	.63	.68	.73	.79
28.	Avoid eating	.78	.79	.71	.55	.80	.74	.73	.82	.83
29.	Diet unsatisfactory	.84	.84	.80	.74	.86	.82	.80	.87	.81
31.	Avoid smiling	.80	.80	.76	.68	.81	.80	.80	.86	.81
32.	Interrupt meals	.82	.84	.75	.65	.82	.79	.83	.86	.91
33.	Sleep interrupted	.77	.79	.72	.59	.78	.64	.81	.75	.82
34.	Upset	.81	.84	.76	.78	.80	.88	.81	.86	.86
35.	Difficult to relax	.80	.81	.77	.90	.73	.88	.86	.89	.85
36.	Depressed	.87	.88	.83	.77	.87	.82	.85	.89	.89
37.	Concentration affected	.86	.85	.84	.91	.84	.79	.87	.87	.88
38.	Been embarrassed	.84	.85	.81	.83	.84	.86	.81	.82	.86
39.	Avoid going out	.84	.85	.82	.76	.84	.75	.87	.85	.92
40.	Less tolerant of others	.81	.81	.79	.81	.81	.74	.86	.82	.80
41.	Trouble getting on with others	.77	.77	.76	.79	.74	.78	.85	.89	.79
42.	Irritable with others	.78	.79	.77	.86	.80	.75	.83	.86	.74
43.	Difficulty doing jobs	.84	.86	.82	.88	.84	.74	.86	.88	.88
44.	Health worsened	.79	.81	.75	.73	.76	.77	.84	.83	.89
45.	Financial loss	.67	.72	.56	.49	.64	.60	.82	.59	.79
46.	Unable to enjoy people's company	.86	.87	.83	.80	.87	.86	.87	.90	.85
47.	Life unsatisfying	.81	.83	.76	.88	.78	.86	.86	.90	.86
48.	Unable to function	.81	.83	.77	.84	.76	.76	.88	.89	.84
49.	Unable to work	.82	.83	.79	.79	.85	.77	.86	.84	.80

^*Loadings ≤.45 are in bold and italicized