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- Title
Dental esthetic satisfaction, received and desired dental treatments for improvement of esthetics.
- Authors
Akarslan, Zühre Zafersoy; Sadik, Burak; Erten, Hülya; Karabulut, Erdem
- Abstract
Aim: The purposes of this research were to investigate factors influencing patients' satisfaction with their present dental esthetic, received previous dental treatments on anterior teeth and basic treatments that they wanted to undergo to improve their dental appearance. Materials and Methods: A total of 1014 patients who attended a dental school in a major city in Turkey participated in the study. The participants were surveyed with a questionnaire containing questions about gender, age, education level, self-reported tooth appearance, received previous dental treatments on anterior teeth and desired basic esthetic dental treatments. Statistical analysis of the verifying data was made with descriptive statistics, χ2test and multiple logistic regression analyses. Results: According to the analyses of the verifying data, 55.1% of the patients were dissatisfied with the color of their teeth, 42.7% with dental appearance, 29.9% with crowding of anterior teeth, 23.3% were hiding teeth while smiling, 16.1% had non-esthetic restorations and 11.9% thought that their anterior teeth were protruding. Esthetic restoration was found to be the most-performed treatment recently (29.0%) and whitening of teeth was the most-desired dental treatment (49.0%). Gender, age and education level had an effect on satisfaction and received previous and desired dental treatments for improvement of esthetics. Conclusion: Many of the Turkish patients surveyed in the study were dissatisfied and desired the improvement of dental esthetics. Therefore, dentists should consider this as an important dimension in their practice.
- Subjects
TURKEY; COSMETIC dentistry; DENTAL care; DENTAL fillings; LOGISTIC regression analysis; PATIENT satisfaction
- Publication
Indian Journal of Dental Research, 2009, Vol 20, Issue 2, p195
- ISSN
0970-9290
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4103/0970-9290.52902