Haliloğlu Özkan Tuğba, Dursun Derya
Department of Orthodontics, Üsküdar University, Faculty of Dentistry, İstanbul, Turkey.
Department of Orthodontics, University of Health Sciences, Faculty of Dentistry, İstanbul, Turkey.
Turk J Orthod. 2022 Dec;35(4):284-289. doi: 10.5152/TurkJOrthod.2022.21256.
The aim of this study is to evaluate the opinions of adolescents and adults regarding nonconventional methods and their associated payment options in Turkey.
A total of 183 subjects were asked to complete a questionnaire to evaluate their perception of various nonconventional acceleration methods: corticotomy, piezocision, micro-osteoperforation, vibration, drug injection, and customized appliances. The questionnaire also investigated how willing the patients would be to pay more and how much more they would accept to reduce the treatment time.
About 38.7% of the adolescents and 44.4% of the adults were willing to undergo an additional procedure, and 59.6% of both groups chose customized appliances as their first preference as a way of accelerating the treatment process. About 45.4% of the total participants were neutral about paying more to reduce treatment time. Those patients who were willing to pay more accepted a maximum increase of only 10% even if that meant a 50% decrease in treatment time.
Adults were slightly less tolerant of the duration of orthodontic treatment than adolescents and were more likely to undergo additional procedures and pay more for a shorter treatment time. In addition, the invasiveness of each procedure was the primary factor given when choosing an acceleration method, rather than its reduction rate.
本研究旨在评估土耳其青少年和成年人对非常规方法及其相关付费方式的看法。
共183名受试者被要求完成一份问卷，以评估他们对各种非常规加速方法的认知：皮质切开术、压电切开术、微骨穿孔术、振动、药物注射和定制矫治器。问卷还调查了患者愿意额外支付多少钱以及为缩短治疗时间最多能接受多支付多少。
约38.7%的青少年和44.4%的成年人愿意接受额外的治疗程序，两组中59.6%的人首选定制矫治器作为加速治疗过程的方法。约45.4%的总参与者对为缩短治疗时间而多付费持中立态度。那些愿意多付费的患者即使这意味着治疗时间减少50%，也最多只接受增加10%的费用。
成年人对正畸治疗疗程的耐受性略低于青少年，并且更有可能接受额外的治疗程序并为缩短治疗时间支付更多费用。此外，在选择加速方法时，每种程序的侵入性是首要考虑因素，而非其缩短治疗时间的比例。
