Leake J L, Hawkins J R, Locker D
Community Dental Health Services, Research Unit, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
J Public Health Dent. 1996 Summer;56(4):182-9. doi: 10.1111/j.1752-7325.1996.tb02434.x.
The purpose of this study was to investigate the factors influencing the pattern (amount and types) of dental care provided to dental visitors participating in the baseline stage of the Ontario Study of the Oral Health of Older Adults.
We interviewed and examined older adults from four municipalities in Ontario and obtained dental service records for the previous two years for those reporting a dental visit. Individual services and their corresponding time and values were aggregated into categories. We compared the pattern of care for dentate and edentulous subjects, and by age, municipality of residence, and social, demographic and economic characteristics.
The 473 subjects received 5,031 services, more than four hours of dental care per subject over the two years. The 29 edentulous subjects received about one-third the number of services compared with the dentate; however, there were no differences in relative time units (RTUs) or relative value units (RVUs). Among the dentate the amount of care (RVUs) varied by municipality of residence and by visiting behavior, but not by age, income, or other socioeconomic variables.
Both dentate and edentulous visitors received over two hours of care per person per year. Dental care patterns were influenced by dental status, area of residence, and visiting behaviors.
本研究旨在调查影响参与安大略省老年人口腔健康研究基线阶段的看牙者所接受牙科护理模式（数量和类型）的因素。
我们对安大略省四个城市的老年人进行了访谈和检查，并获取了那些报告有看牙经历者过去两年的牙科服务记录。将各项服务及其相应的时间和价值汇总分类。我们比较了有牙颌和无牙颌受试者的护理模式，并按年龄、居住城市以及社会、人口和经济特征进行了比较。
473名受试者共接受了5031项服务，在两年时间里，每名受试者接受了超过4小时的牙科护理。29名无牙颌受试者接受的服务数量约为有牙颌受试者的三分之一；然而，相对时间单位（RTU）或相对价值单位（RVU）并无差异。在有牙颌受试者中，护理量（RVU）因居住城市和就诊行为而异，但不受年龄、收入或其他社会经济变量的影响。
有牙颌和无牙颌的看牙者每年每人接受的护理时间均超过两小时。牙科护理模式受牙齿状况、居住地区和就诊行为的影响。
