BMC Oral Health


Open Access Research article

Practices participating in a dental PBRN have substantial and advantageous diversity even though as a group they have much in common with dentists at large

Sonia K Makhija1*, Gregg H Gilbert1, D Brad Rindal2, Paul Benjamin3, Joshua S Richman4, Daniel J Pihlstrom5, Vibeke Qvist6 and the DPBRN Collaborative Group

Author Affiliations

1 Department of General Dental Sciences, School of Dentistry, University of Alabama, Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA

2 HealthPartners Dental Group and HealthPartners Research Foundation, Minneapolis, MN, USA

3 Private practitioner in Miami, FL, USA

4 Division of Preventive Medicine, University of Alabama, Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA

5 Permanente Dental Associates, Portland, OR, USA

6 Department of Cariology and Endodontics, Royal Dental College, Copenhagen, Denmark

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BMC Oral Health 2009, 9:26 doi:10.1186/1472-6831-9-26

Published: 15 October 2009

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Practitioner and Practice Characteristics, in Percent, By Region, for the DPBRN Practitioners Who Completed the Caries Questionnaire. The data provided represent the statistical analysis of the practitioner and practice characteristics of members who completed the first DPBRN study.

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