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Out‐of‐office dentistry: an alternative delivery system
Author(s) -
Krust Kim S.,
Schuchman Lynn
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
special care in dentistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.328
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1754-4505
pISSN - 0275-1879
DOI - 10.1111/j.1754-4505.1991.tb01728.x
Subject(s) - medicine , dental care , dental clinic , delivery system , service delivery framework , dentistry , service (business) , family medicine , population , nursing , environmental health , economy , economics , pharmacology
Access to care continues to be a barrier in meeting the dental needs of a growing elderly population as well as other special patient care groups. One nontraditional delivery system reported and used by some practitioners is the mobile dental clinic. A dual purpose written survey was designed to: collect descriptive information about the operation of mobile and portable dental clinics and examine the attitudes and beliefs of dentists practicing out‐of‐office dentistry. This survey showed out‐of‐office dental clinics deliver dental services to a variety of patient populations. Portable dental clinics appear to be suited for care delivery to nursing home patients. There also appears to be a significant correlation between portable clinics and the delivery of denture service (P < .05 ).