DENTAL TOURISM POTENTIAL FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF DENTISTS: THE CASE OF ANTALYA PROVINCE

IF 0.4 4区综合性期刊 Q4 ECOLOGY

Interciencia Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI:10.59671/emma1

Zeynep Aydin Kilinc, Harun Ucak

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Abstract

Dental tourism is one of the fastest-growing and developing sub-branches of medicaltourism. However, academic research in this field is quite limited. Moreover, the verylimited studies in Tï¿½rkiye, where the research was conducted, mainly focus on themotivations and destination preferences of dental tourists. This study is a survey-basedstudy conducted with dentists. The cross-sectional study population includes 310 dentistsat private health institutions in Antalya province, and the data were collected face-to-facebetween 2022-2023. According to the results obtained in the study, it was determined thatdental tourists mostly have implanted veneers, crowns, dental bridges and teeth whiteningprocedures. The study also determined that the dental tourism knowledge of dentists is ata reasonable level.

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从牙医的角度看牙科旅游潜力:以安塔利亚省为例

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Interciencia 综合性期刊-生态学

CiteScore

0.80

自引率

25.00%

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审稿时长

4-8 weeks

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