DPBRN Patient Satisfaction With Dental Restorations

Dental Practice-Based Research Network

Status: Completed

Conditions: Patient Satisfaction

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other; NETWORK; NIH

Identifiers

NCT01201421

118678

U01DE016747 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study was to administer two questionnaires. The first, a Dental Satisfaction Questionnaire to assess patient satisfaction with a restoration visit using patients recruited from practices participating in the Dental PBRN "Reasons for replacement or repair of dental restorations" study. The second questionnaire (completed by the practitioner) was a brief single page questionnaire to evaluate the patient visit.

Full description

This study was to assess a comprehensive range of determinants of patient satisfaction following the restoration replacement or repair to study the relative contribution of each determinant towards overall patient satisfaction.

Enrollment: 5,932 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 13+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• participants directly involved in this study were patients who sought dental treatment in the practitioner investigators' practices
• patient with replaced or repaired restorations placed in the treatment of permanent teeth who were also enrolled in the DPBRN "Reasons for replacement or repair of dental restorations"

Exclusion criteria

• children younger than 13 years of age were excluded from this study because of issues related to comprehension and validity of responses