Concordance between practitioner questionnaire responses and observed clinical treatment recommendations for treatment of dentin hypersensitivity: findings from the National Dental Practice-Based Research Network.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Few published reports have presented concordance between treatment choices selected by dentists in hypothetical clinical scenarios and treatment choices made by the same dentists in actual clinical practice. The aim of the current cross-sectional study, conducted within the Management of Dental Hypersensitivity (MDH) study, was to assess the potential value of practitioners' questionnaire responses regarding their typical treatment provided for management of dentin hypersensitivity (DH), by evaluating agreement between these responses and subsequently-observed recommendations recorded during actual clinical examinations.

Methods

A total of 171 practitioners enrolled in the National Dental Practice-Based Research Network completed both a questionnaire and a clinica

SUBMITTER: Litaker MS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6570951 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature