Promoting regular dental attendance in problem-orientated dental attenders: A systematic review of potential interventions.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Problem-orientated dental attenders account for around one-third of the UK population, these being patients who do not seek regular dental care, instead only attending with dental pain. In order to develop intervention(s) to encourage regular dental attendance in these patients, any previous intervention development should be identified to aid idea generation or retrofitting of interventions.

Objective

To identify previous interventions which have been developed targeted at problem-orientated dental attenders to facilitate the development and co-design of a new intervention.

Methods

Eight electronic databases were searched for studies which included an intervention targeted at adult problem-orientated or irregular dental attenders to encourage regular denta

SUBMITTER: Currie CC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9292277 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature