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Treatment needs and skill mix workforce requirements for prosthodontic care: a comparison of estimates using normative and sociodental approaches

Ab-Murat N 1 , Sheiham A 2 , Watt R 3 , Tsakos G 4

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  • 1 Department of Community Oral Health and Clinical Prevention, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. norintan@um.edu.my
  • 2 Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom. a.sheiham@ucl.ac.uk
  • 3 Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom. r.watt@ucl.ac.uk
  • 4 Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom. g.tsakos@ucl.ac.uk
BMC Oral Health, 2015 Mar 13;15:36.
PMID: 25887142 DOI: 10.1186/s12903-015-0015-9

Abstract

The traditional measure for assessing dental treatment needs and workforce requirements based solely on normative need (NN) has major shortcomings. The sociodental approach (SDA) to assess needs overcomes some of the shortcomings as it combines normative and subjective needs assessments and also incorporates behavioural propensity (Sheiham and Tsakos 2007). The objective of this study was to estimate and compare prosthodontic treatment needs and workforce requirements, using the normative and the sociodental approaches for different skill mix models.

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