PMID: 11918572Mar 29, 2002Paper

Follow-up study of dental students' esthetic perceptions of mild dental fluorosis

Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology
Steven M LevyJ R Jakobsen

Abstract

Several studies have assessed people's esthetic perceptions of dental fluorosis, suggesting that concerns may be greater than believed previously. Few studies have assessed dental students' perceptions and none has done so over time. The purpose of this paper is to report on changes in dental students' esthetic perceptions of dental fluorosis and other conditions. Fourth-year dental students (n=45) completed questionnaires about computer-generated photographs of fluorosis and other conditions, using the same protocol as when they were entering dental students. Results were compared for each of the eight images at the individual level using paired statistical tests. Although many patterns were generally consistent, there were a substantial number of differences in results over time, concerning both the mild fluorosis and non-fluorosis images. In general, students tended to score both fluorosis and non-fluorosis images more favorably as fourth-year students. When rating images from very pleased (1) to very embarrassed (10), fourth-year students rated the images significantly more favorably than they had done as first-year students for normal/control, incisal third only dental fluorosis, and a more generalized, mild fluorosis. Sim...Continue Reading

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