Predictors of Norwegian dentists' decisions to recommend replacement of teeth at the time of extraction

Community Dental Health

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 18-23

  Trovik, Tordis A ^a   Klock, Kristin S ^a   Haugejorden, Ola ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Adults; Cross sectional; Extraction; Normative need; Predictors; Questionnaire survey; Treatment

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DENTAL CARE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FORECASTING; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; NORWAY; PRIVATE PRACTICE; PROGNOSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TOOTH EXTRACTION; TOOTH PROSTHESIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DECISION MAKING; DENTAL PROSTHESIS; DENTIST'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; ESTHETICS, DENTAL; FORECASTING; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MIDDLE AGED; NORWAY; ODDS RATIO; PRIVATE PRACTICE; PROGNOSIS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SAMPLING STUDIES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TOOTH EXTRACTION;

EID: 0036512637     PISSN: 0265539X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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