OBJECTIVE To explore whether dentists' beliefs and attitudes to providing preventive and restorative dental care for young children can form a barrier to the provision of care. BASIC RESEARCH DESIGN The Barriers to Childhood Caries Treatment (BaCCT) Questionnaire, a standardised international measure was developed and applied. PARTICIPANTS Through a research consortium, each site was asked ...

AIM To estimate the quantity of dental amalgam that Ontario dentists release into waste water. METHODS Information from a self-administered postal survey of Ontario dentists was combined with the results of other experiments on the weight of amalgam restorations and the quantity of amalgam waste that bypasses solids separators in dental offices. Algorithms were developed to compute the quanti...

Objective: Dentistry has been considered as an inspiring and rewarding profession but it is also equally challenging because of the physical and mental adversity it produces on the dentists. Dentists experience a variety of stressful factors all through their career resulting in professional burnout. The study was conducted to measure the level of burnout and implicated risk factors among denti...

This study assessed the feelings and attitudes of children toward their dentists and their association with oral health. Methods. A questionnaire designed to evaluate the attitudes of children toward dentists and preferences was completed by 200 children and their families. In addition, the children were examined and the World Health Organization (WHO) method was used to obtain dmft and DMFT sc...

This paper examines the distribution of dentists among U.S. counties along the rural-urban continuum. Dentist workforce availability has implications for oral health care access and utilization, which in turn can affect the quality of life, health, and productivity of rural residents. In addition, dentists form part of the non-tradable services sector, and its erosion may affect the vitality of...

Online reviews and rating sites are shaping industries as the users rely on recommendations given by former consumers and sharing opinions on the web. Dentistry has also been impacted by dental patients’ reviews. This paper classifies trust-related information for dental care recommendations onto 4 categories: context, relationship, reputation and subjective criteria. It discusses each category...

AIM The aim of this study was to evaluate the level of knowledge and the current attitudes towards infection control in the dental offices in the Northeast Romania. MATERIAL AND METHODS Questionnaire-based study conducted on 152 dentists aged between 25-65 years practicing in 6 Northeast Romania counties. The questionnaire included questions related to current infection control procedures and...

The hepatitis B virus (HBV) has been considered the major occupational risk agent for dentists. The Central West region of Brazil is considered an intermediate endemic pattern area, but currently there is no information about the HBV prevalence in dentists of Goiânia, Goiás. This study aimed at the detection of the HBV infection rate and risk factors for dentists of Goiânia and the comparison o...

Address correspondence to: Oscar Arevalo, DDS, ScD, MBA, MS, 3601 NW 107th Ave. Doral, FL 33178. Email: [email protected] Objective: To determine the levels of satisfaction, license status, and desire to relocate of pediatric dentists in Puerto Rico. Methods: Pediatric dentists in Puerto Rico were surveyed via telephone interviews. Data were collected through a 34-item questionnaire that ex...

BACKGROUND Dentists are considered role models by the general population in regards to oral hygiene and oral health behavior. This study aimed to access the oral health status of dentists and laypersons, and compare the dentists' practice of preventive dentistry and oral self-care behaviors to that of the laypersons. METHODS This cross-sectional study recruited 472 participants (195 dentists ...