Questionnaire Survey for Formulating Clinical Practice Guidelines for Magnetic Attachments Applications 　- Analysis and Selection of the Clinical Questions (CQ) –

M.Hideshima, Y.Igarashi, T.Ichikawa, J.Tanaka, T.Kochi, T.Ishigami, T.Andoh*, A.Nishiyama**

Dental Care Council, the Japanese Society of Magnetic Applications in Dentistry,

Section of Removable Prosthodontics,* Temporomandibular Joint and Occlusion,**

Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University

Abstracts

In the era of evidence-based medicine, clinical practice guidelines (CPG) have become an integral task of each academic society, and the Japanese Society of Magnetic Applications in Dentistry (JSMAD) has also formed a dental care council that has discussed the formulation of clinical practice guidelines (CPG) for magnetic applications in dentistry according to the directions of the Japanese Association for Dental Science.

The council developed a questionnaire survey dealing with the subject of magnetic attachments and distributed it to the board members and attendees of the 19^th annual meeting of JSMAD and general practitioners who were not members of JSMAD in order to analyze what kind of clinical questions (CQ) they have.

As a result, 117 answers were returned and a total of 147 clinical questions (CQs) were divided into 5 categories according to their applications. The numbers of CQs in each category was implants;21, type of defect;51, occlusion&periodontics;17, arrangement and configuration;27 and management or others;31 respectively. And 14 typical CQs for CPG were selected.