People with congenital bleeding disorders perspectives on why dentists refused to treat them: An exploratory qualitative study using a card sorting technique.

Hassan Abed Elham Alsahafi

Published in: Special care in dentistry : official publication of the American Association of Hospital Dentists, the Academy of Dentistry for the Handicapped, and the American Society for Geriatric Dentistry (2022)

Among several reported reasons, fear of dentists from uncontrolled gingival bleeding was the most reported reason of why dentists refused to treat adults with CBDs. While other reasons were reported by parents of children with CBDs such as parents did not ask for dental treatment to their children, difficulty of dental treatment to dentists, young age of patients, and poor accessibility due to long waiting list.

Keyphrases

young adults
end stage renal disease
atrial fibrillation
newly diagnosed
ejection fraction
prognostic factors
middle aged
patient reported
smoking cessation