Dentareport

Dentareport performs statistical analysis and visualization of dental treatment outcomes to compare treatment success rates and identify risk factors for treatment failure.

Key Features:

• Digital Data Collection: Automatically collects data from electronic patient files within practice management programs.
• Computer-Aided Descriptive Analysis: Executes computer-aided routines to generate descriptive analyses of dental treatments.
• Bivariate Risk Factor Analysis: Conducts bivariate analyses by fitting separate models for each baseline characteristic (e.g., age) against time until failure (e.g., tooth loss) at practice-, patient-, and tooth-levels.
• Visualization Tools: Produces annual failure rates and survival graphs to display treatment longevity and failure over time.
• Self-Analysis and Research Data Generation: Generates datasets suitable for retrospective practice-based studies, including mono-center and multi-center observational analyses.
• Objective Decision-Making Support: Identifies and highlights factors influencing treatment outcomes to support objective comparison of therapeutic concepts.

Scientific Applications:

• Practice-level outcome analysis: Enables practitioners to compare success rates of different treatments and identify associated risk factors.
• Retrospective observational studies: Supports mono-center and multi-center practice-based research by providing large, analyzable datasets.
• Treatment longevity and risk factor studies: Facilitates analysis of annual failure rates, survival of treatments, and associations between baseline characteristics (e.g., age) and tooth loss.

Methodology:

Uses computer-aided descriptive routines, computes annual failure rates and survival graphs, and performs bivariate risk factor analyses by fitting separate models for each baseline characteristic to assess associations with time until failure.