title: Comment on "dental prosthetic status and prosthetic need of the institutionalized elderly living in geriatric homes in mangalore: a pilot study".
abstract: Public Health Dentistry is a speciality which is targeted towards the larger benefit of community and society. Dental health surveys in specific population groups should be planned adequately and the data should be analyzed in such a way so that it may help in making strategies for the intervention to improve the existing status. This could be only done with the help of proper planning, analysis and interpretation of a sample survey. The present study highlights the research design, statistical and inferential errors in a published work of public health dentistry in order to bring about the common mistakes and errors made. The renewed suggested approach helps in interpreting the results in a better way and makes them objective-oriented.
authors.affiliation: Department of Periodontics, Seema Dental College, Rishikesh 249203, India.
authors.forename: Ashutosh
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Dixit
authors.forename: Varun
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Arora
authors.forename: Kapil
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Loomba
authors.forename: Ridhima
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Birmani Gaunkar
authors.forename: Seema K
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Dixit
authors.forename: Bhaskar
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Agarwal
authors.forename: Alok
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Misra
authors.forename: Narendra Kumar
authors.initials: NK
authors.lastname: Gupta