DPBRN Patient Satisfaction With Dental Restorations

Patient Satisfaction With Dental Restorations

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.

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.

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