Publications by authors named "Fariborz Bayat"
Objectives: This study assessed relationships between oral health care workforce and dental health in 12-year-olds in a developing health care system in Iran from 1992 to 2014 and compared these findings with the most recent corresponding findings in selected countries.
Methods: Data regarding oral health care workers from 1962 to 2014 were extracted from the comprehensive human resource data bank of the Shahid Beheshti Research Institute of Dental Sciences. Data regarding decayed, missing, and filled permanent teeth (DMFT) of 12-year-olds, extracted from official statistics, described dental health.
Objective: To assess the impact of occupational factors on the sex ratio of dentists' children.
Methods: A randomly selected 501 Iranian dentists participated in a telephone interview. The participants were contacted by their mobile number to answer questions about demographic variables (gender, age, marriage status), practice-related variables (year of graduation as general or specialist dentist, years of clinical work, working hours, average number of radiographs taken in a day, and spouse's job), and questions about their children (number, gender and date of birth of each child).
Aim: To evaluate the determinants of Iranian dentists' behaviour regarding infection control (IC).
Design: A cross-sectional questionnaire survey.
Setting: Iranian general dental practitioners (GDP) participating in a national dental congress.
Objectives: To assess the relationship between insurance status and type of service received among dentate adults in a developing oral health care system.
Methods: A cross-sectional survey based on phone interviews in Tehran, Iran. Four trained interviewers collected data using a structured questionnaire.
Why do adults entitled to free or highly subsidized dental services select fully out-of-pocket-paid care?
Community Dent Oral Epidemiol
February 2010
Objective: To investigate patients' reasons for selecting a dental clinic given their choice of free or highly-subsidized dental services.
Methods: The study was based on cross-sectional data obtained through phone interviews with adults in Tehran, Iran. The present study included those entitled to free or highly-subsidized dental services (n = 726).
Objectives: To find out the relationship between dental insurance and demand for dental care, the present study evaluated impact of insurance scheme on adults' dental check-ups in a developing oral health care system.
Methods: The target population included adults in the city of Tehran where the only telecommunication company provides 90% of the 1.9 million households with a fixed telephone.
Objective: To evaluate dental attendance among adults in Tehran, Iran in relation to their dental insurance status.
Design: A cross-sectional survey based on telephone interviews.
Participants: 1,531 adults in Tehran.