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Dentist-Patient Relationship, Patient Perceptions Towards Dentist and Dental Practice In Khammam

Introduction: The dentist-patient relationship is the heart of successful dentistry.The natnre of dentist patient interaction is most likely the major determinant of satis faction by patients. Objective: To determine the criteria considered by patients while selecting dentists.To assess the perception of patients towards dentists.To explore the patients current views of dentist, dentist behavio...

Dental care throughout pregnancy: what a dentist must know.

Pregnancy is a unique period in a woman's lifetime. Good oral health during pregnancy is important to the overall health of both the expectant mother and her baby. Oral health assessment should be part of comprehensive prenatal care for all women and every general medical practitioner and obstetrician should consider referral of a newly pregnant woman to a dentist as routine. Unfortunately, the...

Improving Dental Care Recommendation Systems Using Patient and Dentist Profiling

Online social networks are emerging in a fast pace as people have started to rely on the information presented on such platforms as a source for many day-to-day activities such as travel, shopping, healthcare, weather and even government services. However, the usage seems to be far less for the healthcare and dental care recommendation sites. This paper investigates whether adding profiling wou...

The Dentist / Patient Relationship: The Role of Dental Anxiety

Dental fear in Australia: who's afraid of the dentist?

BACKGROUND This study aimed to describe both the prevalence of dental fear in Australia and to explore the relationship between dental fear and a number of demographic, socio-economic, oral health, insurance and service usage variables. METHODS A telephone interview survey of a random sample of 7312 Australian residents, aged five years and over, from all states and territories. RESULTS The...