Primary dental care: time to revise the definition?
There have been several definitions of primary dental care over the last 20 years and while each was written to reflect the requirements of the time, most provide a conflicting description. This paper examines past definitions of primary dental care in the context of recent developments in UK dentistry and critically describes possible new definitions.
Morris
J
J
School of Dentistry, University of Birmingham.
White
D
D
Bradnock
G
G
D003190:Comprehensive Dental Care; D005792:General Practice, Dental; D006801:Humans; D017146:Models, Organizational; D013218:State Dentistry / Q000458:organization & administration; D009626:Terminology as Topic; D006113:United Kingdom