Most dentists approve of oral health check-ups for local residents at community pharmacies and desire collaboration with community pharmacists
| Autor: | Hiroki, Iwata, Keisuke, Nakamura, Noriko, Kobayashi, Kazuko, Fujimoto, Naoko, Hayashi, Katsunori, Yamaura |
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| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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| Zdroj: | Drug Discoveries & Therapeutics. 16:309-312 |
| ISSN: | 1881-784X 1881-7831 |
| DOI: | 10.5582/ddt.2022.01091 |
| Popis: | Community pharmacies are required to play a role in maintaining the health of local residents. Since September 2015, a national policy in Japan has allowed saliva tests to be used for oral health check-ups at community pharmacies. In the present study, we aimed to reveal dentists' perceptions and expectations for oral health check-ups provided at community pharmacies. A questionnaire survey was administered to dentists at 1,000 randomly selected dental clinics in Tokyo, Japan; 257 responses (25.7%) were included in the analysis and 85.2% of respondents approved of oral health check-ups at community pharmacies. Most respondents who approved of oral health check-ups expected that community pharmacists would recommend that local residents visit a dental clinic (85.8%) and provide a report to dentists (60.3%) after the check-up. Furthermore, 79.0% of respondents desired collaboration with community pharmacies. These findings suggested the potential for oral health check-ups to facilitate collaboration between community pharmacies and dental clinics aimed at maintaining and improving oral health of local residents. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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