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The Impact of Subject Age, Gender, and Arch Length on Attitudes of Syrian Dentists towards Shortened Dental Arches
Objective. This study aimed to investigate the impact of subject age, gender, and arch length on dentists' attitudes towards unrestored shortened dental arches. Materials and Methods. 93 Syrian dentists were interviewed and presented with 24 scenarios for male and female subjects of different a...
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Hindawi Publishing Corporation
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4523669/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26265916 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/643176 |
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author | Nassani, Mohammad Zakaria Al-Nahhal, Tammam Ibrahim Kujan, Omar Tarakji, Bassel Kay, Elizabeth Jane |
author_facet | Nassani, Mohammad Zakaria Al-Nahhal, Tammam Ibrahim Kujan, Omar Tarakji, Bassel Kay, Elizabeth Jane |
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description | Objective. This study aimed to investigate the impact of subject age, gender, and arch length on dentists' attitudes towards unrestored shortened dental arches. Materials and Methods. 93 Syrian dentists were interviewed and presented with 24 scenarios for male and female subjects of different ages and shortened dental arches of varying length. Participants were asked to indicate on a standardized visual analogue scale how they would value the health of the mouth if the posterior space was left unrestored. Results. A value of 0.0 represented the worst possible health state for a mouth and 1.0 represented the best. The highest mean value (0.73) was assigned to a shortened dental arch with missing second molar teeth in the mouth of a 70-year-old subject. A 35-year-old female subject with an extremely shortened dental arch (all molar and premolar teeth are missing) attracted the lowest mean value (0.26). The statistical analysis indicated a significant decrease in the value placed on unrestored shortened dental arches as the number of remaining teeth decreased (p < 0.008). While subject gender had almost no impact on dentists' attitudes towards shortened dental arches, the scenarios for the older shortened dental arch subjects attracted significantly higher values compared to the scenarios for the younger subjects (p < 0.017). Conclusion. Subject age and arch length affect dentists' attitudes towards shortened dental arches, but subject gender does not. |
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spelling | pubmed-45236692015-08-11 The Impact of Subject Age, Gender, and Arch Length on Attitudes of Syrian Dentists towards Shortened Dental Arches Nassani, Mohammad Zakaria Al-Nahhal, Tammam Ibrahim Kujan, Omar Tarakji, Bassel Kay, Elizabeth Jane Int J Dent Research Article Objective. This study aimed to investigate the impact of subject age, gender, and arch length on dentists' attitudes towards unrestored shortened dental arches. Materials and Methods. 93 Syrian dentists were interviewed and presented with 24 scenarios for male and female subjects of different ages and shortened dental arches of varying length. Participants were asked to indicate on a standardized visual analogue scale how they would value the health of the mouth if the posterior space was left unrestored. Results. A value of 0.0 represented the worst possible health state for a mouth and 1.0 represented the best. The highest mean value (0.73) was assigned to a shortened dental arch with missing second molar teeth in the mouth of a 70-year-old subject. A 35-year-old female subject with an extremely shortened dental arch (all molar and premolar teeth are missing) attracted the lowest mean value (0.26). The statistical analysis indicated a significant decrease in the value placed on unrestored shortened dental arches as the number of remaining teeth decreased (p < 0.008). While subject gender had almost no impact on dentists' attitudes towards shortened dental arches, the scenarios for the older shortened dental arch subjects attracted significantly higher values compared to the scenarios for the younger subjects (p < 0.017). Conclusion. Subject age and arch length affect dentists' attitudes towards shortened dental arches, but subject gender does not. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015 2015-07-21 /pmc/articles/PMC4523669/ /pubmed/26265916 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/643176 Text en Copyright © 2015 Mohammad Zakaria Nassani et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Nassani, Mohammad Zakaria Al-Nahhal, Tammam Ibrahim Kujan, Omar Tarakji, Bassel Kay, Elizabeth Jane The Impact of Subject Age, Gender, and Arch Length on Attitudes of Syrian Dentists towards Shortened Dental Arches |
title | The Impact of Subject Age, Gender, and Arch Length on Attitudes of Syrian Dentists towards Shortened Dental Arches |
title_full | The Impact of Subject Age, Gender, and Arch Length on Attitudes of Syrian Dentists towards Shortened Dental Arches |
title_fullStr | The Impact of Subject Age, Gender, and Arch Length on Attitudes of Syrian Dentists towards Shortened Dental Arches |
title_full_unstemmed | The Impact of Subject Age, Gender, and Arch Length on Attitudes of Syrian Dentists towards Shortened Dental Arches |
title_short | The Impact of Subject Age, Gender, and Arch Length on Attitudes of Syrian Dentists towards Shortened Dental Arches |
title_sort | impact of subject age, gender, and arch length on attitudes of syrian dentists towards shortened dental arches |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4523669/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26265916 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/643176 |
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