Reasons for Delay in Seeking Treatment for Dental Caries in Tanzania

The majority of patients experiencing dental caries seek dental care very late. Delay in seeking dental care is not dependent on ...

Several other authors have found that ignorance is amongst the leading causes of delay in seeking dental care. ... An individual who is ignorant of a disease ...

Reasons for late seeking of dental care among dental patients ...

Conclusion: Majority of dental patients sought oral care due to pain from advanced caries lesions. Negligence was the main reason for not seeking care early.

Reasons for Delay in Seeking Treatment for Dental Caries in Tanzania

The most common reason given by the participants who delayed seeking dental care for their decayed teeth included self-negligence (n = 184, 75.4%), the practice ...

Reasons for Delay in Seeking Treatment for Dental Caries in Tanzania

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Ignorance isn't bliss when it leads to delays in dental care

... reasons people with caries cited for delaying seeking treatment ... Tanzania, up to 98% of patients delay seeking care for dental caries.

reasons for patient's delay and effect of treatment and advice on the ...

A study among a more repre- sentative sample of the Tanzanian population indicated that 86 % of the patients attended the dental clinics with complaints of pain ...

Dental Care Services in Children: Pattern and Factors for Delay in ...

... Factors for Delay in Seeking Care among Tanzanian Paediatric Dental Patients ... Management of Dental Caries: Experience from Central Tanzanian ...

Perceived Patient Barriers to Tooth-Retaining Treatment in Tanzania

... care and delayed dental care–seeking behavior, should be addressed. Targeted ... causes of dental caries (Grigalauskienė et al. 2015). It has been ...

Oral Health in Tanzania: Unmasking Its Neglected Dimension

Reasons advanced by those not seeking emergency dental treatment despite the need include insufficient funds to cover treatment costs (27.9 ...

Reasons for Delay in Seeking Treatment for Dental Caries in Tanzania

Featherstone, Evidence-based caries management for all ages-practical guidelines, Front Oral Heal, № 2 · Kusekwa, Reasons for late seeking of dental care among ...

Dental Care Services in Children: Pattern and Factors for Delay in ...

05). The most common reason given by the participants who delayed seeking dental care for their decayed teeth included self-negligence (n = 184, ...

Dental treatment demands among patients in Tanzania - 1990

Overall 86% of the patients sought treatment for pain, ranging from 77% to 97% in the different clinics. Caries was the main cause of pain. The proportion ...

Perceived Patient Barriers to Tooth-Retaining Treatment in Tanzania

For many public dental patients in Tanzania, dental caries is ... care and delayed dental care–seeking behavior, should be addressed.

East African Journal of Health and Science

Kahabuka, “Dental Care Services in Children: Pattern and Factors for Delay in. Seeking Care among Tanzanian Paediatric Dental Patients”, EAJHS, ...

Dental Caries Pattern Amongst Tanzanian Children: National Oral ...

The pooled overall prevalence of caries in Tanzania was 30.7% compared to the regional overall prevalence of 50% and mean Decayed Missing Filled Teeth (DMFT) of ...

Health care seeking behaviour of patients reporting to a dental ...

... Reasons for Delay in Seeking Treatment for Dental Caries in TanzaniaInt Dent J202273210023585PMCID. 2. T Rambabu S Koneru Reasons for use and nonuse of dental ...

Misconceptions on Causes and Management of Dental Caries

Several studies have been carried out in different parts of world to address the misconceptions regarding oral health.[ 2, 6,9] In Tanzania most of the studies ...

Health care seeking behaviour of patients reporting to a dental ...

Reasons for Delay in Seeking Treatment for Dental Caries in Tanzania. Int Dent J. 2022;73(2):10023585. 2. Rambabu T, Koneru S. Reasons for use and nonuse of ...

Dental caries status and treatment need among pregnant women ...

Other factors that were associated with the high prevalence of dental caries during pregnancy as reported by various literature include; ...