Influences of some background factors on the subjective need for dental implants in a Swedish population

On the basis of a questionnaire sent to 3000 randomly sampled individuals aged 45-69 years and living in an average Swedish county (response rate, 79.4%), the influences of some demographic socioeconomic, and attitude variables on the subjective need for treatment with dental implants were studied in stepwise logistic regression models. The overall influence of these background factors was rather limited. Instead, the most important single factor seemed to be dental status. For the subjects wearing removable partial dentures, low education was significantly related to a low subjective need for implant treatment. For the totally edentulous group of subjects, low income was most significantly associated with a low subjective need for implant therapy.