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Table 4 If you are informed by one of your implant patients that s/he cannot visit your clinic due to becoming bedridden, how do you address this?

From: A preliminary report on dental implant condition among dependent elderly based on the survey among Japanese dental practitioners

 

The number of respondents

I’ll do nothing

34 (5%)

I’ll ask another dentist to provide the patient with home-visit dental care

217 (32%)

I’ll advice the patient to perform oral self-care only

111 (17%)

I’ll continue to provide the patient with post-operative care through home-visit dental care

326 (49%)

Others

59 (9%)

No answer

26 (4%)