Department of Clinical and Community Sciences, School of Dentistry, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Medical Towers Suite 402, 1717 11th Avenue South, Birmingham, AL 35205, United States.
Department of Clinical and Community Sciences, School of Dentistry, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Medical Towers Suite 402, 1717 11th Avenue South, Birmingham, AL 35205, United States.
J Dent. 2023 Oct;137:104653. doi: 10.1016/j.jdent.2023.104653. Epub 2023 Aug 11.
Our aims are to describe the characteristics of dentists, members of the US National Dental practice-based research network (PBRN) in the United States, and determine how often these dentists provide specific dental procedures.
Dentists completed a questionnaire when they enrolled in the Network about their demographic and training characteristics and characteristics of their practices and patients. Dentists also reported the frequency of providing specific dental procedures. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics.
Of 4,483 dentists in active clinical practice, 34% identified as females, 70% as white, and 73% as general dentists. Most dentists practiced in large metropolitan areas (87%) and in solo or small practices (72%). On average, they reported about one-half of their patients were children or older adults, a third were from historically underrepresented racial and ethnic groups, and one-quarter were covered by public insurance. Most dentists routinely performed restorations and fixed prosthetics (78%), extractions (59%), removable (44%) and implant (40%) prosthetics, and endodontics on incisor and premolar teeth (44%).
Dentists participating in the National Dental PBRN have much in common with dentists at large. The network has a broad representation of dentists, practice types, patient populations, and treatments offered, including diversity regarding race/ethnicity, gender, insurance, and geography of its practitioners and patients.
Characteristics of National Dental PBRN dentists suggest that a broad range of dentists is interested in participating in national-level research studies, thereby enabling an array of clinical study settings and topics that can optimize the generalizability of study findings.
我们旨在描述美国国家牙科实践基础研究网络（PBRN）中牙医的特征，以及这些牙医提供特定牙科程序的频率。
牙医在加入网络时填写了一份问卷，内容包括他们的人口统计学和培训特征、实践和患者特征，以及提供特定牙科程序的频率。数据采用描述性统计方法进行分析。
在 4483 名活跃的临床牙医中，34%为女性，70%为白人，73%为全科牙医。大多数牙医在大都市区（87%）和单人或小型诊所（72%）执业。平均而言，他们报告说约有一半的患者是儿童或老年人，三分之一来自代表性不足的种族和族裔群体，四分之一的患者有公共保险。大多数牙医常规进行修复和固定义齿（78%）、拔牙（59%）、可摘（44%）和种植（40%）义齿以及切牙和前磨牙的牙髓治疗（44%）。
参加国家牙科 PBRN 的牙医与大多数牙医有很多共同点。该网络代表了广泛的牙医、实践类型、患者群体和提供的治疗方法，包括种族/族裔、性别、保险和执业医生和患者地理位置的多样性。
国家牙科 PBRN 牙医的特征表明，广泛的牙医有兴趣参与国家级研究，从而能够提供一系列临床研究环境和主题，从而优化研究结果的普遍性。
