Table 3 Parents' and dentists' dental-care process acceptance (treatment evaluation inventory) (parents n = 337 and dentists n = 40)
Questions to parents/dentists | Parents | Dentists |
|---|---|---|
Acceptance (Likert scale) | ||
Mean ± SD | ||
How much: | ||
More knowledge about the child's teeth health do you think you and your child/your patients and children now have? | 4.4 ± 1.0 | 4.4 ± 0.9 |
Did you/your patients learn about the child's risk of developing caries? | 4.7 ± 0.8 | 4.4 ± 0.9 |
More information do you think you/your patients/parents now have about how to look after the child's teeth and mouth health? | 4.6 ± 0.9 | 4.8 ± 0.7 |
How much do you think: | ||
The co-creation of a care plan between the dentist and together with the parents/patients enhances the patient/parent understanding and adherence to the plan? | 4.7 ± 0.7 | 4.3 ± 1.0 |
The early caries management (non-operative care of initial active caries lesions) helped you/your patients' parents to change awareness of seeking to control the caries situation before it becomes a cavity (at an early stage)? | 4.8 ± 0.6 | 4.3 ± 1.1 |
How much do you think the home care and in-office individual-level approaches helped you/your patients' parents to change the behaviour towards: | ||
Restricting the child's free-sugar intake? | 4.7 ± 0.8 | 4.1 ± 1.0 |
Assuring the child's twice-a-day toothbrushing with fluoridated toothpaste? | 4.7 ± 0.8 | 4.5 ± 0.9 |
How satisfied do you feel with the: | ||
Procedures used by the dentist to restore child's cavities without drilling/conduction of non-AGP tooth-preserving operative care? | 4.8 ± 0.7 | 4.6 ± 0.8 |
Personalised assessment to decide when the child should come for recall (personalised risk-based recall interval decision)? | 4.8 ± 0.6 | 4.6 ± 0.8 |
How much you feel: | ||
You can apply what you learned from the child's dental management/your patients/parents will be able to use and apply what they learned from CCI. | 4.8 ± 0.6 | 4.5 ± 0.9 |
