Current perspectives on improving chairside dental health education for adults.
This paper reviews current knowledge about improving chairside dental health education for adults. It places this knowledge within a general context of change in clinical ideas about appropriate treatment and of evidence about the current practice of oral health education for adults. The acronym SPERMAID is proposed as a summary of the principles to be followed in the motivation of the adult patient.
Joint Department of Dental Public Health, University College London, UK.
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D000328:Adult; D003812:Dentist-Patient Relations; D006267:Health Education, Dental / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D010358:Patient Participation