The importance of understanding barriers to dental attendance of adults in the UK was
acknowledged in the first Adult Dental Health Survey in 1968 and has been investigated in …

Abstract The 1998 survey of Adult Dental Health in the UK was carried out under the
auspices of the Office of National Statistics together with the Universities of Birmingham …

Objective The aim of this study was to examine the impact of attendance patterns on oral
health in the context of government policy on dental care and registration in the UK. Method …

Objective: This paper reports on a study of denial anxiety among adults aged 60 years living
independently in Britain. Design: A national cross‐sectional study carried out with the …

To date, the evidence supporting the benefits of dental visiting comes from cross-sectional
studies. We investigated whether long-term routine dental visiting was associated with lower …

Objective The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between reported dental
attendance patterns and the public's perception of how oral health impacts on quality of life …

Background So far, there are few studies considering the development of dental anxiety and
dental attendance patterns across time in the general population of Norwegian adults. This …

Objectives: It has been proposed that avoidance of dental visits might be the main
determinant of poor oral health outcomes in people with high dental anxiety (HDA). This …

This study aimed to estimate the prevalence of dental anxiety and examine its associations
among a representative sample of Australians aged 18 and over. A random sub-sample of …

The idea that barriers to accessing and accepting dental care were related to psycho-social
factors, which could be explained as resistances, has been previously considered (see part …