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General Dentists and Special Needs Patients: Does Dental Education Matter?
dc.contributor.authorDao, Loan P.
dc.contributor.authorZwetchkenbaum, Samuel
dc.contributor.authorInglehart, Marita Rohr
dc.date.accessioned2020-02-05T15:08:18Z
dc.date.available2020-02-05T15:08:18Z
dc.date.issued2005-10
dc.identifier.citationDao, Loan P.; Zwetchkenbaum, Samuel; Inglehart, Marita Rohr (2005). "General Dentists and Special Needs Patients: Does Dental Education Matter?." Journal of Dental Education 69(10): 1107-1115.
dc.identifier.issn0022-0337
dc.identifier.issn1930-7837
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/153731
dc.description.abstractSpecial needs patients are one of the underserved dental patient groups in the United States. This study investigates whether undergraduate dental education about special needs patients affects general dentists’ a) professional behavior, b) practice characteristics, and c) attitudes concerning special needs patients. Data were collected from 208 general dentists (178 male/30 female; average age: 49.85 years) who were members of the Michigan Dental Association. The more the respondents agreed that dental education had prepared them well, the more likely they were to treat various types of special needs patients and to set up their practices so they could treat them and the more they liked treating these patients. In conclusion, most general dentists did not think their undergraduate dental education had prepared them well to treat special needs patients. However, the better they reported to have been educated, the more likely they were to treat special needs patients. Given the access to care problems for many special needs patients, it seems crucial to revise dental curricula and provide more didactic and clinical education concerning the treatment of special needs patients.
dc.publisherAmerican Dental Education Association
dc.publisherWiley Periodicals, Inc.
dc.subject.otherdental education
dc.subject.otherprofessional behavior
dc.subject.otherpractice characteristics
dc.subject.otherattitudes concerning special needs
dc.subject.othergeneral dentists
dc.subject.otherdisabilities
dc.subject.otherspecial needs patients
dc.titleGeneral Dentists and Special Needs Patients: Does Dental Education Matter?
dc.typeArticle
dc.rights.robotsIndexNoFollow
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevelDentistry
dc.subject.hlbtoplevelHealth Sciences
dc.description.peerreviewedPeer Reviewed
dc.description.bitstreamurlhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/153731/1/jddj0022033720056910tb04011x.pdf
dc.identifier.doi10.1002/j.0022-0337.2005.69.10.tb04011.x
dc.identifier.sourceJournal of Dental Education
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