title: Rural and urban differences in prosthodontic care provided by Virginia general dentists.
abstract: Virginia dentists were surveyed to reveal how changes in practice activities affected rural and urban practices in terms of prosthodontics and to assess the impact these changes may have on dentists, continuing education courses, and school curricula. Six hundred licensed dentists were selected at random and were mailed a survey containing questions about their demographics and the types of prosthodontic treatment they performed. Of the 333 respondents, 195 were considered eligible to represent general dentists. Based on this study, rural dentists devote slightly more practice time to providing removable prosthodontic treatment and oral surgery than urban dentists and slightly less time to providing implant restorative treatment. Rural dentists provide significantly more patients with removable partial dentures, complete dentures with no implants, and complete dentures of any type. Most prosthodontic fees were significantly lower for rural dentists.
authors.affiliation: Department of Prosthodontics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, USA.
authors.forename: Charles
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Janus
authors.forename: Ronald J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Hunt
mesh_terms: D005250:Fees, Dental; D005792:General Practice, Dental / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D019239:Practice Patterns, Dentists' / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011476:Prosthodontics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D019035:Rural Health Services / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D019037:Urban Health Services / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014768:Virginia