PMID: 22338785Feb 22, 2012Paper

Factors shaping demand for prostethic dentistry treatment with special focus on implant dentistry

Swedish Dental Journal. Supplement
Birger Narby

Abstract

The main aim of this thesis was to investigate how attitudes influence the latent and manifest need, desire, demand, and utilization for dental implant treatment, considering the gatekeeping process between need and demand, and between demand and utilization of dental treatment. A conceptual analysis of the need and demand concept from the literature was a first step in the study. A second step was to examine changes in attitudes toward desire for implant treatment over time, also in relation to dental status, in a population of middle aged and older individuals in Sweden based on two questionnaire studies, one in 1989 and the other in 1999 among the same 3000 participants. The individuals who responded both in 1989 and 1999 constituted a panel of 56% of the 1989 survey sample. Logistic regression models were done with desire of implant treatment as dependent variable. In paper V, a qualitative study using grounded theory was done on the treated patients' subjective perspective on receiving a fixed implant-supported denture. An emancipatory perspective with the patient-dentist dialogue was regarded as central for an optimal treatment result in the prosthetic treatment decision-making process. A main finding was that need is est...Continue Reading

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