A Sociological Analysis of the Differential Use of Dental Services

Hicks, Neville; Newcomb, G. M.

doi:10.1111/j.1753-6405.1981.tb00315.x

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“…Conflicting results have been reported across studies concerning the SES (Demetriou et al, 1995;Fardal, 2006;Hu et al, 2017;Shah et al, 2017;Si et al, 2016). High cost of the therapy inevitably dissuades patients from going to dentists for treatment; however, early reports which analysed the usage of dental services which were free of charge highlighted that the cost is not the most important factor (Hicks & Newcomb, 1981).…”

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Compliance with supportive periodontal/peri‐implant therapy: A systematic review

Amerio

Mainas

Petrova

et al. 2019

J Clinic Periodontology

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Aim: The present systematic review aimed at assessing the degree of compliance with supportive periodontal/peri-implant therapy as well as identifying patient-related factors that could potentially play a role on patient compliance. Methods: Electronic and manual literature searches were carried out to assess patient compliance during maintenance. Main outcomes were compliance definition, degree of compliance and patient-related factors. Owing to the heterogeneity of the data reported across the studies, descriptive statistics were performed to shed light on compliance rate and the patient-related factors. Results: A total of 39 articles were included. No consensus regarding the definition of "compliance" was found in the analysed literature. The percentage of fully compliers and non-compliers ranged between 3.3%-86.8% and 1.69%-64.4%, respectively. Smoking habit and history of periodontal disease were found to be associated with patients' compliance. Inadequate information/motivation was found as the main patient-reported reason for non-compliance. Conclusions: Despite the high variability across studies, compliance with the supportive periodontal/peri-implant maintenance therapy was found to be unsatisfactory. Attitudes, psychological traits and construct associated with compliance remain largely unknown, and still, lack of information and motivation are paramount to be addressed during the periodontal/implant therapy to increase patient compliance.

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Section: Agreements and Disagreements With Previous Findingsmentioning

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Compliance with supportive periodontal/peri‐implant therapy: A systematic review

Amerio

Mainas

Petrova

et al. 2019

J Clinic Periodontology

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Provision of extractions by main diagnoses

Brennan¹,

Szuster²

2001

International Dental Journal

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Utilization of dental services and its relation to the periodontal status in a group of South Australian employees

Srikandi

Carey

Clarke

1983

Comm Dent Oral Epid

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The pattern of dental service utilization, the perception of periodontal disease, and the oral hygiene habits among 642 industrial employees were evaluated using a self-administered questionnaire against background variables of age, sex, and socioeconomic strata. Of the study population, 50.5% had their most recent dental visit within the previous 12 months and 42.5% claimed to seek regular check ups. There was no significant association between time intervals since the last dental visit and age, sex, occupation, income or education. Regular visits were made more often by subjects in the higher occupation and income level. Multivariate analyses of the number of missing teeth simultaneously considering age, sex, socioeconomic level, regularity and frequency of dental visits revealed that except for age and sex, no other factors were significant. The most common reason for not seeing a dentist in the previous 12 months was an assumption that "nothing was wrong". A large majority of the group surveyed were unaware of the presence of periodontal disease or the need for its treatment, despite the high prevalence in all subgroups. Periodontal status was not significantly associated with sex, socioeconomic levels, regularity of frequency of dental visits, but there was a significant regression on age. The study population's pattern of service utilization was found to be similar to that reported for the general population, and it was anticipated that the hygiene habits of the group was representative of the total community. If that assumption is true the high prevalence of periodontal disease of the study population probably exists in the general community.

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A Sociological Analysis of the Differential Use of Dental Services

Cited by 10 publications

References 7 publications

Compliance with supportive periodontal/peri‐implant therapy: A systematic review

Compliance with supportive periodontal/peri‐implant therapy: A systematic review

Provision of extractions by main diagnoses

Utilization of dental services and its relation to the periodontal status in a group of South Australian employees

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