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- Title
Assessing the Acceptability of Less Invasive Caries Removal Techniques for treating Deep Carious Lesions: A Conjoint Survey among Dentists Practicing in a Midwestern American State.
- Authors
Ortega-Verdugo, Paula; Warren, John J.; Gaeth, Gary J.; Carter, Knute; Kateeb, Elham; Kolker, Justine L.; Shane, Dan M.
- Abstract
This study identified factors that influence dentists' decisions regarding less invasive caries removal techniques such as stepwise removal (SW) and selective removal (SE) using a marketing research technique, conjoint analysis. A survey was sent to 1,434 dentists practicing in Iowa. Dentists were randomly assigned to receive a questionnaire to rate the likelihood they would use either SW/SE in hypothetical clinical scenarios. The scenarios were carefully created by conjoint design and included three relevant attributes: depth of lesion, hardness of carious dentin, and patient age. Descriptive and conjoint analyses were performed to assess trade-offs between these attributes, using SPSS. The study revealed that depth of lesion was the most important factor in the dentists' decisions (49 importance value) when choosing a SW to treat a deep carious lesion, followed by hardness of carious dentin and patient age (21 importance value). For the SE group, depth of the lesion was also the predominant factor when selecting a treatment. The study also identified that a high proportion of dentists (24.9%) indicated they would never consider using SW or SE under any circumstances. Our survey showed that depth of lesion was the most important reason to select a less invasive caries removal method. The high proportion of dentists indicating they would never consider selective caries removal (SE) techniques suggests that these less invasive options are underutilized.
- Subjects
IOWA; DENTISTS; CONJOINT analysis; DENTAL caries; MARKETING research; RESEARCH methodology; DENTIN
- Publication
Caries Research, 2023, Vol 57, Issue 3, p243
- ISSN
0008-6568
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1159/000533658