title: Choice of dental care among 16--18 year olds in Oslo.
abstract: One of the objectives of organized school dental service is to create ability and willingness among young adults to maintain a preventive oral health care, e.g. regular dental visits. In order to investigate the decisions about and plans for dental care among school dental service leavers a questionnaire was sent to a probability sample of 258 young adults who had finished ninth grade eight months earlier. The participation rate of the Youth Dental Program (YDP) was approximately 90%. The drop-outs were made up of at least two rather distinct groups. One of them was dominated by subjects with a high social background and they chose to a great extent care in private practice. The other group was dominated by young men with a low social background. They finished school early and expressed pessimistic expectations to the life-time of their own teeth.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001290:Attitude; D002662:Child Health Services; D003718:Denmark; D003729:Dental Care; D003752:Dental Health Services; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010352:Patient Dropouts; D012737:Sex Factors; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013334:Students