Birger Narby
AIM: The main aim of this thesis was to investigate how attitudes influence the latent and manifest need, desire, demand, and utilization for dental implant treatment, considering the gatekeeping process between need and demand, and between demand and utilization of dental treatment. MATERIAL AND METHODS: A conceptual analysis of the need and demand concept from the literature was a first step in the study. A second step was to examine changes in attitudes toward desire for implant treatment over time, also in relation to dental status, in a population of middle aged and older individuals in Sweden based on two questionnaire studies, one in 1989 and the other in 1999 among the same 3000 participants...
2011: Swedish Dental Journal. Supplement