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Adolescent dental care and the South Australian school dental programme
Author(s) -
Dooland M.,
Carr Susan
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
australian dental journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.701
H-Index - 71
eISSN - 1834-7819
pISSN - 0045-0421
DOI - 10.1111/j.1834-7819.1983.tb01086.x
Subject(s) - dental care , medicine , family medicine , service (business) , nursing , dentistry , medical education , economy , economics
A bstract — In 1979 the South Australian School Dental Programme established a State‐wide system of direct referral of patients in their final year of primary school to a dentist of their parents' choice. Although a questionnaire survey of 9,953 secondary school students indicated that a greater proportion of ex‐school dental patients continued to seek dental care than has been reported previously, the improvements could not be attributed definitely to the programme of direct referral. Problems associated with comparisons between school dental and non‐school dental groups, and with previous surveys, are discussed.