This study examined the impact of expanded function allied dental personnel on the productivity and efficiency of general dental practices. Detailed practice financial and clinical data were obtained from a convenience sample of 154 general dental practices in Colorado. In this state, expanded function dental assistants can provide a wide range of reversible dental services/procedures, and dent...

This ross-sectional study involving 127 male prisoners evaluates the use of dental services and dental caries among Brazilian inmates. Data were collected by interview and clinical examination. Sociodemographic and sentencing information as well as use of dental services, self-reported dental morbidity, self-perception, and oral health impacts were investigated. The mean DMFT index value was 19...

Increasing the quality of the services provided in a Dental School can raise the satisfaction level of patients and consequently increase the level of their oral health. This study was conducted to evaluate the quality of dental care and services provided to patients referred to a Dental School in Kerman, Iran. In this qualitative study, face-to-face, in-depth interviews were conducted with 41 ...

This project was undertaken from July 1999 to August 2000 to identify the status of extramural programming (that is, a program that has undergraduate dental students providing any aspect of dental care to individuals in settings outside the main clinical facility of the school) in North American dental schools. A survey instrument was mailed to all United States and Canadian dental schools conc...

H S Kiran Kumar1, Sudhakara Bhat2, Sanjay Gouda Patil3, Sankar Madhavan4, Rahul Kulkarni5 1Assistant Professor, Department of Prosthodontics, Sri Hasanamba Dental College and Hospital, Hassan, Karnataka, India, 2Professor and Head, Department of Prosthodontics, Sri Hasanamba Dental College and Hospital, Hassan, Karnataka, India, 3Professor, Department of Prosthodontics, Sri Hasanamba Dental Col...

a Department of Urology, Uonuma Institute of Community Medicine, Niigata University Medical and Dental Hospital, Japan b Department of Nephrology, Uonuma Institute of Community Medicine, Niigata University Medical and Dental Hospital, Japan c Department of Pathology, Uonuma Institute of Community Medicine, Niigata University Medical and Dental Hospital, Japan d Department of Diagnostic Radiolog...

~ i ~ h ~ ~ d ~ ~ has compiled a comprehensive bibliogaphical review of studies which describe factors related to the utilization of dental services in the United States and other countries. Examples of variables described in the differential use of dental services include financing, anxiety and fear, past experiences, perceptions and personalities of both providers and recipients of dental ser...