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Chairtime needed for an incremental dental care program for schoolchildren in Israel
Author(s) -
Bimstein Enrique,
Eidelman Eliecer,
Chosack Aubrey
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
community dentistry and oral epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.061
H-Index - 101
eISSN - 1600-0528
pISSN - 0301-5661
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0528.1976.tb02105.x
Subject(s) - medicine , dentistry , dental care
— Chairtime needed to provide initial treatment to 80 children, 6½ to 7½ years of age, in an incremental care program was recorded. An average of 8.2 carious teeth with 14.0 carious surfaces required treatment. The clinical and radiographic examinations were concluded earlier and were not included in the chairtime recorded. One year after completion of the initial treatment, 51 of these children were reexamined to determine the maintenance treatment needs. These were found to be approximately one‐third of the initial treatment needs. The average chairtime required for initial treatment was 2 hours and 37 min. It was estimated that for complete treatment, including examination and preventive measures, 3 hours per child would be required for initial treatment and 1 hour for maintenance care each following year.