Factors influencing patient satisfaction with dental appearance and treatments they desire to improve aesthetics
Background: We assessed factors influencing patients’ satisfaction with their dental appearance and the treatments they desired to improve dental aesthetics. Methods: A cross-sectional study was performed out among 235 adult patients who visited the Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia dental clini...
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BioMed Central
2011
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Online Access: | http://eprints.usm.my/39106/1/Factors_influencing_patient_satisfaction_with.pdf http://eprints.usm.my/39106/ https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6831-11-6 |
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Summary: | Background: We assessed factors influencing patients’ satisfaction with their dental appearance and the
treatments they desired to improve dental aesthetics.
Methods: A cross-sectional study was performed out among 235 adult patients who visited the Hospital Universiti
Sains Malaysia dental clinic. A structured, interviewer-guided questionnaire was used to identify patient satisfaction
with their general dental appearance, cosmetic elements and desired treatments.
Results: The 235 patients consisted of 70 males (29.8%) and 165 females (70.2%), of mean age 31.5 years (SD 13.0).
Of these patients, 124 (52.8%) were not satisfied with their general dental appearance. In addition, 132 patients
(56.2%) were not happy with the color of their teeth, 76 (32.3%), regarded their teeth were poorly aligned, 62
(26.4%), as crowded and 56 (23.4%) protruded. Dissatisfaction with tooth color was significantly higher in female
than in male patients (odds ratio [OR] of 1.99 (95% confidence interval [CI] 1.13-3.50). Tooth whitening was the
treatment most desired by patients (48.1%). Results of multiple logistic regression analysis showed that patient
dissatisfaction with general dental appearance was significantly associated with female gender (OR = 2.18; 95% CI:
1.18-4.03), unhappiness with tooth color (OR = 3.05; 95% CI: 1.74-5.34) and the opinion that their teeth protruded
(OR = 2.91, 95% CI: 1.44-5.91). |
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