title: Dental health behavior and attitudes--an application of correspondence analysis.
abstract: Differences in dental behavior and dental attitudes between people with (almost) all natural teeth, people with a full denture in both jaws and people with a full denture in only the maxilla are visualized by means of correspondence analysis in one overall picture. In this picture the three distinguished subgroups of dental patients and their characteristics are indicated as points in a two-dimensional space. The distances between the points in this picture show to what extent these points are connected. The findings obtained in this study can lead to the conclusion that: a. differences in dental status are related to differences in dental behavior and dental attitudes; b. people with all natural teeth and people with a full denture in both jaws obviously are opposite of each other in many respects, whereas people with a full denture in only one jaw can be characterized as a dental in-between group.
authors.affiliation: Department of Oral Function and Prosthetic Dentistry, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: G M
authors.initials: GM
authors.lastname: van Rossum
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Kalk
authors.forename: A J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Felling
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: van 't Hof
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D001294:Attitude to Health; D003729:Dental Care / Q000523:psychology; D003817:Dentition; D005260:Female; D015438:Health Behavior; D006267:Health Education, Dental; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D007575:Jaw, Edentulous / Q000523:psychology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009066:Mouth, Edentulous / Q000523:psychology*; D009909:Oral Health; D011313:Preventive Dentistry