2024
DOI: 10.1177/03015742241283560
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Prime Factors Influencing the Reluctance Expressed Toward Orthodontic Treatment Among a Tribal Population with No Prior History of Orthodontic Treatments in the Community: A Cross-sectional Study

Uday Kumar Digumarthi,
R. Prakash

Abstract: Background Perceiving a need for orthodontic treatment is a heuristic process usually conditioned by the interplay between motivational factors and influencing factors in a community with orthodontic awareness and a history of already ongoing or completed orthodontic treatments. Using a verbally assigned index to elicit candid responses, the current study aimed at assessing reluctance toward orthodontic treatment in adolescents with clinically ascertained malocclusion in a community with no prior history of or… Show more

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