E 203. From the 000 questionnaires sent, 45 questionnaires had been returned as either undeliverable
E 203. On the 000 questionnaires sent, 45 questionnaires were returned as either undeliverable or the respondent was unable to fill it in for various factors. 425 dentists of 754 who had not responded for the survey right after two reminders have been randomly selected and contacted by telephone in June 203 to investigate motives for nonresponse. 66 dentists could not be contacted, 249 regarded filling in the questionnaire and 0 didn’t want to participate. Of your 0 nonrespondents, most had no 
time or no longer wished to take part in surveys (42.7 and 25.five , respectively). The remaining three.7 discovered it as well complicated, was not keen on digital technologies, or had other factors to not participate. 52 with the 0 nonrespondents answered followup inquiries, and appeared to not use fewer digital technologies than respondents. A total of 33 dentists, out from the sample of 000 dentists, sooner or later returned the questionnaire, a response rate of 3.three . 23 with the respondents were no longer functioning in dental care, and four questionnaires were returned incomplete; these were subsequently excluded, leaving 249 questionnaires for additional evaluation. 65. had been returned on paper and 34.9 had been completed on line. In the respondents 57 (63. ) had been male and 89 (35.7 ) female, and of three respondents (.two ) gender and age have been unknown. Age ranged among 24 and 64 years. 25 (0.0 ) on the dentists were younger than 30, 54 (two.7 ) have been 30 to 39, 50 (20. ) have been 40 to 49, 82 (32.9 ) were 50 to 59 and 35 (4. ) had been 60 to 64 years old. Unpublished information from the Royal Dutch Dental Association (KNMT) for all registered dentists (aged 64 and younger) within the Netherlands in January 202 shows that the distribution of gender and age group of thePLOS 1 DOI:0.37journal.pone.020725 March 26,six Adoption and Use of Digital Technologies amongst Dentistssample is hugely comparable to that of all registered Dutch dentists. This suggests that the sample adequately represents Dutch dental practitioners with regard to these aspects.Digital dental technologies in useThe frequencies of use of digital dental technologies are presented in Table . Digital registration of patient facts could be the most frequently utilised technologies (93.2 ). Other regularly utilised administration and communication technologies are a digital agenda (82.4 ), practice web-site (82.0 ) and digital address and NSC 601980 biological activity financial administration (80.8 ). With the exception of practice web sites, the majority of dentists began working with these technologies ahead of 2005. 75 of customers began working with digital patient information before 2005 (median year 2000), and in the same period 54 of these working with a digital agenda began it (median 2004), 74 started using digital address and financial administration systems (median 998). 5 began using a practice site just before 2005, though 56 started it just after 200 (median 200). Appointments (34.four ), info screens within the waiting region (7.6 ), practice provide management (6.eight ) and communication in regards to the practice by way of social media (three.2 ) are used digitally with much less frequency, and also the majority of dentists have began utilizing these for the duration of the previous three years. 55 of customers of digital appointments started to PubMed ID:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24180537 use them following 200 (median 200), when within the very same period 54 of users of digital information screens began these (median 200), 90 of these utilizing social media began (median 202) and five began working with digital info screens (median 200). In the clinical and diagnostic technologies, digital intra oral radiogra.
