Authors

• Jalil Kohpayezadeh
• Ahmad Jafari
• Saeedeh Daryazadeh
• Jila Shajari

Abstract

Background: The first and most important step in planning for any system is need assessment and with identifying the most important needs, is a basis for setting goals and appropriate context for organizing other elements. This study aimed to evaluate of restorative treatment need in dental services and was done based on community needs.
Materials and Methods: This was a descriptive-cross sectional study and data gathering was done by an objective form that confirmed its validity. Restorative dental ‎services of 1027‏ visited patients with non-randomized judgment sampling ‎consecutive during three months at summer in 2012 in Isfahan Farhangian dental clinic was noted on forms and entered into statistical software SPSS (version 17) ‏‎ and results reported. Chi-square test was used for data analyzing. Significant level P

Keywords

• restorative dentistry
• need assessment
• community needs