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  • Title: Attitudes of two groups of dentists towards dental hygienists.
    Author: Uitenbroek DG, Schaub RM, Tromp JA, Kant JH.
    Journal: Community Dent Oral Epidemiol; 1989 Feb; 17(1):11-3. PubMed ID: 2917455.
    Abstract:
    The purpose of the study was to assess whether cooperation with a dental hygienist was based on pursuit of financial gain or on aspirations to improve patient care. To this end a questionnaire was sent to 972 dentists. 412 dentists replied, of whom 178 had patients treated by a dental hygienist. Questions were asked regarding practice profile, preventive orientation and dentists' opinion about the material and immaterial value of cooperation with a dental hygienist. Discriminant analysis showed that the main distinguishing factor between dentists who did and dentists who did not cooperate with dental hygienists was their opinion about the quality of the dental hygienists' work in relation to the non-financial costs for patients, insurance companies, and dentists. The difference in the dentists' opinions about the direct profitability of dental hygienists was not significant. The conclusion can be drawn that the orientation of Dutch dentists towards care for their patients plays a more important role in a dentist's decision to cooperate with a dental hygienist than is usually presumed.
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