Decision-making regarding dental treatments - What factors matter from patients' perspective? A systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Achieving oral health for the population should be a concern of public health care systems, as it may affect their expenditures in the long term. Patients often face individual challenges in dental care. Why patients decide for or against dental treatments can be determined by many factors, e.g., their own financial resources, preferences, and external circumstances. This cross-country study aims to identify those factors.

Methods

We systematically searched for literature in the biomedical databases PubMed (including MEDLINE), the Cochrane Library, and Web of Science to identify factors influencing dental treatment decisions across different countries. Factors of choice were extracted from relevant articles to develop a codebook for subsequent qualitative analysis

SUBMITTER: Felgner S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12903421 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature