Satisfaction with orthodontic treatment outcome

Patients’ satisfaction with orthodontic treatment and associated factors

Adolescent patients' treatment motivation and satisfaction with orthodontic treatment. Do possible selves matter?

OBJECTIVE To determine whether adolescents' satisfaction with orthodontic treatment outcomes is correlated with the degree to which (1) the adolescents focused on and (2) were energized by imagining their posttreatment possible selves before the treatment, and whether parents' assessments of their children's pretreatment motivation would correlate with their children's posttreatment satisfactio...

Testing a new theory of patient satisfaction with treatment outcome.

OBJECTIVES Theories of patient satisfaction with treatment outcome have not been developed and tested in healthcare settings. The objectives of this study were to test a new theory linking patient satisfaction and embodiment (body--self unity) and examine it in relation to other competing theories. DESIGN We conducted a prospective cohort study. SETTING This study was conducted at a tertiar...

Adjunctive orthodontic treatment with lingual orthodontic system.

The lingual orthodontic therapy though started in 1972, could not be popular till the beginning of 1990. In Nepal it does not have a history of more than a year. It is started in Dhulikhel Hospital for the first time in Nepal. Usually orthodontic therapy is meant for putting braces on the labial surface of the teeth which is called labial orthodontic system. Lingual orthodontic system is a pure...

Understanding the meaning of satisfaction with treatment outcome.

OBJECTIVE Although satisfying patients is an important goal in health care, what is meant by satisfaction in relation to treatment outcome is not clear. The objective of this study was to explore patients' perspectives on the meaning of satisfaction with treatment outcome. DESIGN We conducted a qualitative exploratory study. SETTING This study was conducted at an adult tertiary care hospita...