Differences in dental treatment plan and planning for drug-addicted and non-drug-addicted patients.

This study investigated whether dental treatment plans and planning of general practitioners are different for addicted and identical non-addicted patients. Dental practitioners (n = 500) were sent a questionnaire with information on and questions about treatment for either an addicted or an identical non-addicted patient; response rate was 41 %. Loglinear analysis showed that after controlling for the influence of four demographic variables (sex, age number of patients and number of National Health Service insured patients), the treatment plans made for addicted patients were less elaborate than those for non-addicted.

Dental health in Dutch drug addicts.

The aim of this study was to describe to dental health status of a group of Dutch 20-40-yr-old drug addicts (n = 121) and to compare the results if DMFS with data of an age-comparable sample of the general adult population in the Netherlands (n = 1532). Mean DMFT of the addicted group was 16.9.

[Dental health in drug and alcohol addicts].

The aim of this study was to describe the dental health status of a group of Dutch twenty- to forty-year-old drug addicts (n = 121) and to compare the results on DMFS with data of an in age comparable sample of the general non-addicted adult population in the Netherlands (n = 1532). The average DMFT of the addicted group was 16.9.