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Introduction: Patients who required orthodontic treatment reported negative impacts on the quality of life related to oral health in comparison with those patients with normal occlusion. Objective: To analyze the quality of life related to oral health in patients with different levels of severity of malocclusion who attended public dental offices in Paraguay during 2017. Methodology: Cross-sectional study. Sociodemographic variables such as sex, age, residence and educational level, and clinical variables such as diastema, maximum anterior maxillary and mandibular irregularity, incisal overhang and anterior crossbite were measured. The Oral Health Impact Profile questionnaire was used in its Paraguayan version (OHIP-14Py) and the Dental Aesthetic Index (IED) scale. Results: 269 patients were part of the study, most of them women (75.1%). The IED score was 31.35 ± 11.56. Increased incisal protrusion (> 2 mm) in slightly more than half (52.4%) and a low frequency of anterior crossbite (5.9%) and open bite (10.0%). When evaluating by dimensions, psychological disability (p = 0.028), social disability (p = 0.034) and handicap (p = 0.552) increased according to the level of severity of maloclussion, being statistically significant the first two. Conclusion: As the severity of the level of malocclusion increases, the oral quality of life decreases for the psychological disability and social disability dimensions.

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