[National dental health survey. 4. Dental visits. 1. Behavior and knowledge]

This paper is part of a series on the national oral health survey in the Netherlands (LEOT-project). Previous articles described the development of the questionnaires and the results concerning oral hygiene and nutrition. This paper presents the results as for the dental attendance behaviour and knowledge concerning it of the dentate Dutch population. As an average the Dutch dentate visited the dentist 2.4 times a year. 89% visited the dentist in the last year of this investigation. The largest part of the visits (68%) concerned 'check-up visits'. 14% did not visit the dentist for a check-up. Knowledge about dental visits is rather limited; especially concerning treatment possibilities.