A NARRATIVE REVIEW ON THE OVERLOOKED ASPECTS OF dPROs IN CONNECTION WITH DENTAL MATERIALS.

Abstract

Dentists use a large number of dental materials to treat patients, mainly for pain relief, improved oral function, and orofacial appearance purposes. These materials supposably have been clinically tested and registered before launching onto the market. In terms of clinical testing, despite various objective and subjective assessments that could be done, the dentist-centred outcomes and regulatory body requirements might not fully reflect the perspective of the patient. Thus, dental-patient reported outcomes (dPROs) might be useful in providing valuable self-perceived feedback to stakeholders across a long period of time about the materials... performances. This narrative review evaluated various assessment dPROs tools and their applications to contemporary dental materials, trying to link up basic materials science and biomechanics with the patients... reported outcomes. dPROs can eventually form a basis of value-based dentistry for dental materials that would be of importance in terms of research, regulatory and safety.