Subjective and Objective Treatment Needs Assessment in Patients Attending, M.N DAV Dental College and Hospital Solan, Himachal Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh

Poonam Mahajan^1*, Ajay Mahajan², Rambika Thakur¹
¹Department of Public Health Dentistry, M.N DAV Dental College and Hospital Solan, Himachal Pradesh, India-171001
²Department of Periodontology, Himachal Pradesh Government Dental College and Hospital, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, India-171001

*Correspondence to: Poonam Mahajan, Department of Public Health Dentistry, M.N DAV Dental College and Hospital Solan, Himachal Pradesh, India-171001; E-mail: poonammahajan81@gmail.com
Received date: February 7, 2021; Accepted date: February 18, 2021; Published date: February 25, 2021
Citation: Mahajan P, Mahajan A, Thakur R (2021) Subjective and Objective Treatment Need Assessment in Patients Attending, M.N DAV Dental College and Hospital Solan, Himachal Pradesh. Advanc Dentistry 2(1): pp. 1-7.
Copyright: ©2021 Mahajan P. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Objective: This study is planned on a smaller scale to compare the felt need and normative need among subjects attending Dental Hospital Solan. This an effort to provide essential oral health care to the people of Solan on a superior scale in the future, based on accumulated data, which will facilitate the essential shift from the predominately normative assessment of the need to the incorporation of professionally defined into patientdefined need.

Method: Subjective data was obtained by interview method, while the objective need was assessed by a dental professional on a structured format with predefined indices from randomly selected patients from OPD of DAV Dental College and Hospital Solan.

Results: The majority of patients were from urban areas, graduate, female, and in the age group of 24-35 years. The most common subjective need was found filling and RC (30.7%). The most common objective need was scaling (36.2%). Maximum agreement between subjective and objective need was found in subjects from the urban area, educated, females, and in case of chief complaint of decayed teeth (44.7%) and the discrepancy was found maximum in case of chief s of periodontal problem and uneducated people from the rural area.

Conclusion: This present study indicates low awareness among the population .there was a large discrepancy between subjective and objective treatment needs. The utilization of dental services should therefore be improved not only by providing better dental facilities but to a greater extent by increasing people’s awareness and knowledge of their own dental disorders.