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Factors that drive dentists towards or away from dental caries preventive measures: systematic review and metasummary.
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22 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- Perceived Barriers among Indonesian General Dentists in Providing Caries Preventive Care for Pediatric Patients.European journal of dentistry · 2024Article
- Evaluation of oral health services and challenges faced by oral health practitioners working in Nyarugenge, Rwanda.PloS one · 2024Article
- Application of the extended theory of planned behavior to predict dentist intention and behavior in providing caries preventive care for preschool children.BMC oral health · 2023Article
- Curriculum mapping of health promotion competencies in dental and oral health training programmes in Australia.Health promotion journal of Australia : official journal of Australian Association of Health Promotion Professionals · 2022Article
- COVID-19 as an opportunity for minimally-invasive dentistry: a national cross-sectional survey.BMC oral health · 2022Article
- Nutrition Care Practices of Dietitians and Oral Health Professionals for Oral Health Conditions: A Scoping Review.Nutrients · 2021Article
- General dental practitioners' approach to caries prevention in high-caries-risk children.European archives of paediatric dentistry : official journal of the European Academy of Paediatric Dentistry · 2021Article
- Whose Responsibility Is It Anyway? Exploring Barriers to Prevention of Oral Diseases across Europe.JDR clinical and translational research · 2021Article
- Early Childhood Caries-Related Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice: Discordance between Pediatricians and Dentists toward Medical Office-Based Prevention in Taiwan.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2018Article
- To fill or not to fill: a qualitative cross-country study on dentists' decisions in managing non-cavitated proximal caries lesions.Implementation science : IS · 2018Article
- A systems approach using the functional resonance analysis method to support fluoride varnish application for children attending general dental practice.Applied ergonomics · 2018Article
- Beyond Streptococcus mutans: clinical implications of the evolving dental caries aetiological paradigms and its associated microbiome.British dental journal · 2018Review
- Creating research and development awareness among dental care professionals by use of strategic communication: a 12-year intervention study.BMC oral health · 2017Article
- A national survey exploring oral healthcare service provision across Australian community pharmacies.BMJ open · 2017Article
- Preventive Orientation of Iraqi Dentists in Baghdad in 2016.Journal of dentistry (Tehran, Iran) · 2017Article
- Attitude of dental hygienists, general practitioners and periodontists towards preventive oral care: an exploratory study.International dental journal · 2017Article
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Abstract
backgroundDental caries is a serious public health concern. The high cost of dental treatment can be avoided by effective preventive measures, which are dependent on dentists' adherence. This study aimed to evaluate the factors that drive dentists towards or away from dental caries preventive measures. METHODS AND
findingsThis systematic review was registered in PROSPERO (CRD42012002235). Several databases as well as the reference lists and citations of the included publications were searched according to PRISMA guidelines, yielding 18,276 titles and abstracts, which were assessed to determine study eligibility. Seven qualitative studies and 41 surveys (36,501 participants) remained after data extraction and interpretation. A total of 43 findings were abstracted from the reports and were grouped together into 6 categories that were judged to be topically similar: education and training, personal beliefs, work conditions, remuneration, gender, place of residence and patients. The main findings for adherence based on their calculated frequency effect sizes (ES) were teamwork (21%) and post-graduation (12%), while for non-adherence were biologicism (27%), and remuneration for preventive procedures (25%). Intensity ES were also calculated and demonstrated low prevalence of the findings. Quality assessment of the studies demonstrated that the methodological quality, particularly of surveys, varied widely among studies.
conclusionsDespite the questionable quality of the included reports, the evidence that emerged seems to indicate that further education and training coupled with a fairer pay scheme would be a reasonable approach to change the balance in favor of the provision of dental caries preventive measures by dentists. The results of this review could be of value in the planning and decision making processes aimed at encouraging changes in professional dental practice that could result in the improvement of the oral health care provided to the population in general.
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