Question · asked by 1 review
Dental treatments, care, and services (the decision context) vs No comparator: Factors of choice influencing dental treatment decisions (overall)
- Population
- (Potential) patients with freedom of choice regarding dental treatments, including parents and caregivers deciding for children or elderly; patients with special needs excluded
- Intervention
- Dental treatments, care, and services (the decision context)
- Comparison
- No comparator
- Outcome
- Factors of choice influencing dental treatment decisions (overall)
A wide range of factors (n=101 in three categories) influence patients' dental treatment decisions; the review identified and synthesized them qualitatively without grading certainty (ungraded).
What each review found
Current versions only| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
Dental treatments, care, and services (the decision context) vs None (no comparator defined) Factors of choice influencing dental treatment decisions (overall) · (Potential) patients with freedom of choice regarding dental treatments, including parents and caregivers deciding for… · Dental practices, clinics/hospitals, academic and community settings; 49 countries A wide range of factors (n=101 in three categories) influence patients' dental treatment decisions; the review identified and synthesized them qualitatively without grading certainty (ungraded). Decision-making regarding dental treatments - What factors matter from patients' perspective? A systematic… (2025) All outcomes | n=101 factors of choice identified across 233 articles, grouped into three categories: (I) Dentist & dental institution (n=44 factors), (II) Patient (n=37), (III) Treatment (n=20); no effect sizes were pooled… | 233 studies | GRADE not reported |
Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.
The reviews
| Review | Searched up to | Included studies | AMSTAR 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Decision-making regarding dental treatments - What factors matter from patients' perspective? A systematic review. 2025 All outcomes | 2007 to January 2021 (initial search 2007 to 2018; update search 2019 to January 2021) | 128 | Not applicable |
Studies behind the findings
The primary studies the full-text reviews tie to this outcome. Reviews with headline outcomes only do not list them here.
- Perceptions of Two Older Adults Regarding the Factors and Barriers that Influence their Oral Health Care: A Case Study · 2021 · included by 1 of these review
- Internet Narratives Focused on Health Travelers' Experiences in India: Qualitative Analysis. · 2020 · included by 1 of these review
- Clinician and Patient Factors Influencing Treatment Decisions: Ethnographic Study of Antibiotic Prescribing and Operative Procedures in… · 2020 · included by 1 of these review
- How people make decisions about whether or not to seek orthodontic care: Upstream in the treatment chain · 2019 · included by 1 of these review
- An Evaluation of Factors Affecting Patient’s Decision Making Regarding Dental Prosthetic Treatment · 2019 · included by 1 of these review
- Multicenter study of patients' preferences and concerns regarding the origin of bone grafts utilized in dentistry. · 2019 · included by 1 of these review
- Parental acceptance of the utilization of silver diamine fluoride on their child's primary and permanent teeth. · 2019 · included by 1 of these review
- Perceptions and experiences of patients following treatment with single‐implant mandibular overdentures: A qualitative study · 2018 · included by 1 of these review
- Why Do Patients Miss Dental Appointments in Eastern Province Military Hospitals, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia? · 2018 · included by 1 of these review
- Pediatric Dental Appointments No-show: Rates and Reasons. · 2018 · included by 1 of these review
- The opinion of children and their parents about four different types of dental restorations in a public health service in Brazil · 2017 · included by 1 of these review
- Dental tourism: Examining tourist profiles, motivation and satisfaction · 2017 · included by 1 of these review
- Determinants of Demand in the Public Dental Emergency Service · 2017 · included by 1 of these review
- Patients' Values Related to Treatment Options for Teeth with Apical Periodontitis · 2016 · included by 1 of these review
- Online narratives about medical tourism in Malaysia and Thailand: a qualitative content analysis · 2016 · included by 1 of these review
- A survey of the dentist attire and gender preferences in dentally anxious children · 2016 · included by 1 of these review
- Patient attendance at a UK dental hospital emergency clinic · 2015 · included by 1 of these review
- Exploring motivations to seek and undergo prosthodontic care: a cross-sectional study in a Brazilian adult sample. · 2015 · included by 1 of these review
- Perceptions of oral health, preventive care, and care-seeking behaviors among rural adolescents. · 2014 · included by 1 of these review
- Assessment of motivation, expectations and satisfaction of adult patients submitted to orthodontic treatment · 2013 · included by 1 of these review
- Knowledge and Attitude of Patients toward Dental Implants as an Option for Replacement of Missing Teeth · 2013 · included by 1 of these review
- Consumers' choice of dentists: how and why people choose dental school faculty members as their oral health care providers. · 2012 · included by 1 of these review
- Quality of Life of Endodontically Treated versus Implant Treated Patients: A University-based Qualitative Research Study · 2011 · included by 1 of these review
- Refusal of implant supported mandibular overdentures by elderly patients · 2011 · included by 1 of these review
- Maternal beliefs and motivations for first dental visit by low-income Mexican American children in California. · 2011 · included by 1 of these review
- Factors influencing edentulous patients’ preferences for prosthodontic treatment · 2010 · included by 1 of these review
- Utilization of dental services in a field practice area in mangalore, karnataka. · 2010 · included by 1 of these review
- Dental patients' awareness and knowledge in using dental implants as an option in replacing missing teeth: A survey in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. · 2010 · included by 1 of these review
- Patient preferences for dentists · 2009 · included by 1 of these review
- Patient and parent motivation for orthodontic treatment—a questionnaire study · 2009 · included by 1 of these review
- Implant overdentures for edentulous elders: study of patient preference · 2009 · included by 1 of these review
- Toothache Pain · 2008 · included by 1 of these review
- Coping with Toothache Pain: A Qualitative Study of Low‐Income Persons and Minorities · 2007 · included by 1 of these review
- Baseline characteristics and treatment preferences of oral surgery patients. · 2007 · included by 1 of these review
- The management of an endodontically abscessed tooth: patient health state utility, decision-tree and economic analysis. · 2007 · included by 1 of these review
- Garcha 2010 · included by 1 of these review
- Fragouli 2016 · included by 1 of these review
How reviews are matched to this question
Reviews word the same question differently. Four decision models (TypeSafe's Jev, Liquid AI's d1-ultra, SubQ Snap and Baseten's Elephant) judged each wording of the population, intervention, comparator and outcome against the others; two wordings count as the same when at least three of them agree and none clearly disagrees, and findings count as this question only when all four elements match. Timing, setting and subgroup never split a question: they are shown on each finding.