Evidence summary: what do dentists mean by 'prevention' when applied to what they do in their practices?

Fox, Chris

doi:10.1038/sj.bdj.2010.371

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“…Taylor-Gooby et al 28 pointed out that professional values for preventive care affect practice patterns of preventive dentistry and that British dentists valued a restorative paradigm as opposed to a preventive paradigm which devalued traditional restorative skills in a context of ‘continuing care’ payment in 1990s. Also Fox29 reviewed dentists' perceptions of prevention and its application in practice and highlighted that recently, most dentists regarded aspects of prevention to be part of their professional work, a source of job satisfaction and of value to the practice, its image and a marker of quality of care. Further studies are needed to clarify associations between dentists' perception of dental prevention and its practice.…”

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Dentists’ practice patterns regarding caries prevention: results from a dental practice-based research network

Yokoyama

Kakudate

Sumida³

et al. 2013

BMJ Open

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ObjectiveThe purposes of this study were to (1) quantify dentists' practice patterns regarding caries prevention and (2) test the hypothesis that certain dentists' characteristics are associated with these practice patterns.DesignThe study used a cross-sectional study design consisting of a questionnaire survey.ParticipantsThe study queried dentists who worked in outpatient dental practices who were affiliated with the Dental Practice-Based Research Network Japan, which seeks to engage dentists in investigating research questions and sharing experiences and expertise (n=282).MeasurementDentists were asked about their practice patterns regarding caries preventive dentistry. Background data on patients, practice and dentist were also collected.Results38% of dentists (n=72) provided individualised caries prevention to more than 50% of their patients. Overall, 10% of the time in daily practice was spent on caries preventive dentistry. Dentists who provided individualised caries prevention to more than 50% of their patients spent significantly more time on preventive care and less time on removable prosthetics treatment, compared to dentists who did not provide individualised caries prevention. Additionally, they provided oral hygiene instruction, patient education, fluoride recommendations, intraoral photographs taken and diet counselling to their patients significantly more often than dentists who did not provide individualised caries prevention. Multiple logistic regression analysis suggested that the percentage of patients interested in caries prevention and the percentage of patients who received hygiene instruction, were both associated with the percentage of patients who receive individualised caries prevention.ConclusionsWe identified substantial variation in dentists' practice patterns regarding preventive dentistry. Individualised caries prevention was significantly related to provision of other preventive services and to having a higher percentage of patients interested in caries prevention, but not to the dentist's belief about the effectiveness of caries risk assessment. (Clinicaltrials.gov registration number NCT01 680 848).

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Dentists’ practice patterns regarding caries prevention: results from a dental practice-based research network

Yokoyama

Kakudate

Sumida³

et al. 2013

BMJ Open

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“…15 This article responds to this suggestion by consolidating the findings of a grounded theory study completed in general dental practices in Australia. 16,17 All grounded theory studies aim to produce an overall explanation that brings all of the analysis together.…”

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What factors influence the provision of preventive care by general dental practitioners?

Sbaraini

2012

Br Dent J

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“…Once a review was complete, an 'evidence statement' or summary was published online and in the BDJ. These jargon-free summaries of the critically-appraised evidence were produced and published [24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32] in a form whereby the 'pre-digested' evidence could be easily used by a practitioner. Figure 4 describes the full research agenda-setting process as a series of information exchanges.…”

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“…Furthermore, wider availability of easily accessible pre-processed evidence syntheses on relevant topics, such as the short reviews published in the series by Fox [24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33] can and should promote interest in, and hopefully the growth of, the application of research evidence in practice. Such short, jargon-free précis of the research evidence have been shown to be appreciated by practitioners 34 because the average dentist does not have the time to read, digest and synthesise all the evidence on a given topic, and unless evidence review is comprehensive there is always a danger that bias and incorrect conclusions are drawn.…”

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Evidence-based dentistry – overcoming the challenges for the UK's dental practitioners

2014

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This paper describes the historical origins and purpose of 'evidence-based practice' and describes the barriers to the growth of evidence-based practice within dentistry. It describes a new research agenda-setting process for dentistry, which includes identifying and prioritising the topics of most relevance to the work of primary dental care practitioners. By undertaking the work described in this paper we were striving to make research more relevant to the day to day decisions made by dentists in practice by introducing a new process, the intention being to promote and promulgate the practice of evidence-based dentistry.

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Evidence summary: what do dentists mean by 'prevention' when applied to what they do in their practices?

Cited by 19 publications

References 12 publications

Dentists’ practice patterns regarding caries prevention: results from a dental practice-based research network

Dentists’ practice patterns regarding caries prevention: results from a dental practice-based research network

What factors influence the provision of preventive care by general dental practitioners?

Evidence-based dentistry – overcoming the challenges for the UK's dental practitioners

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