Measurement of oral status and treatment need among subjects with dental prostheses: are the measures less reliable than the prostheses? Part II: Treatment need in removable prosthodontics.
Evaluation of treatment need in removable prosthodontics has been an important component of many epidemiologic and clinical oral health surveys. Accurate measurement of need for care enhances health care program planning, quality of care evaluation, and good clinical and health services research. Unfortunately, similar to the measures of oral and prosthesis status discussed in Part I of this review, measures of treatment need in removable prosthodontics have generally been neither reliable nor valid, and have lacked scientific credibility. Part II describes existing measures for treatment need in removable prosthodontics.
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Department of Prosthodontics, Boston University, Goldman School of Graduate Dentistry, Mass.
D003729:Dental Care; D003824:Denture, Complete; D003832:Denture, Partial, Removable; D003778:Dentures; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D009909:Oral Health