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Background: Survey of patients’ demand and need
to receive dental services, has a special role in providing these services and
meeting the community therapeutic needs. This study compares patients’ demand and need to
receive restorative dental services in a dental clinic in Isfahan.
Methods: This was a descriptive-cross sectional study and
data gathering was by checklist. The data of identified demands and needs of
restorative dental services of
refered patients to Farhangian dental clinic chosen by non-random consecutive sampling during three
months were entered into statistical software SPSS (version 17. Chi-square test was used for data analyzing. P
<0.05 was considered as significant level.
Results:
Totally
1040 patients were studied that included 603 peoples (58.2 %) were in 15-49 years age group. The most referring reason of
patients were respectively related to endodontic (24.8%), restorative and
prosthetic included 193 peoples (each 18.5 %)
and periodontics included 133 peoples (12.8%)
and the least of referring reason was oral diseases included 7 peoples (0.7 %). 1027 patients (98.75%) needed to restorative dental services
but just 195 patients (18.8%) had demand for these services (p<0.05).
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