Smith J M, Sheiham A
Community Dent Oral Epidemiol. 1980 Oct;8(7):360-4. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0528.1980.tb01308.x.
A sociodental investigation was conducted among 254 elderly people living at home in Nottingham. A clinical assessment was made of the subjects' dental treatment needs and this was compared with the subjects' felt and expressed needs. Seventy-eight percent of the sample were clinically judged as needing dental treatment, mainly some form of prosthetic treatment. There was, however, a wide discrepancy between the normative and perceived needs of this elderly population. Only 42% of those who were clinically assessed as needing treatment felt that they required it and only 19% had actually tried to obtain it. Many of the elderly mentioned a number of barriers to obtaining dental care; these included the cost of treatment, fear of the dentist, immobility and the feeling that they should not "bother" the dentist
在诺丁汉，对254名居家老人进行了一项社会口腔学调查。对受试者的牙科治疗需求进行了临床评估，并将其与受试者自我感知及表达出的需求进行了比较。78%的样本经临床判断需要牙科治疗，主要是某种形式的修复治疗。然而，这一老年人群的规范需求与感知需求之间存在很大差异。在经临床评估需要治疗的人中，只有42%觉得自己需要治疗，只有19%实际上曾试图寻求治疗。许多老年人提到了获得牙科护理的一些障碍；这些障碍包括治疗费用、对牙医的恐惧、行动不便以及觉得自己不应该“麻烦”牙医。
