Factors associated with Brazilian adolescents' satisfaction with oral health.

CONCLUSION: Satisfaction with oral health in Brazilian adolescents is linked to a multidimensional structure of factors that include demographic aspects, such as gender and ethnic group, self-perception aspects, such as perceived treatment need and oral health impact on daily activities, and clinical aspects, such as the presence of toothache, severe malocclusion and caries in anterior and posterior teeth.
PMID: 29645408 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Community Dental Health - April 16, 2018 Category: Dentistry Tags: Community Dent Health Source Type: research