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What are the main claims of the paper and how important are they?
To asses the patients perception towards the dentist and the dental practice.
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Are these claims novel? If not, please specify papers that weaken the claims to the originality of this one.
No
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Are the claims properly placed in the context of the previous literature?
Yes
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Do the results support the claims? If not, what other evidence is required?
There has been no comparision to other studies and the results in literature in the discussion part. It has been a description of the results.
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If a protocol is provided, for example for a randomized controlled trial, are there any important deviations from it? If so, have the authors explained adequately why the deviations occurred?
NA. also a pilot study was not done to figure out is there were any shortcomings in the questionnaire.
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Is the methodology valid? Does the paper offer enough details of its methodology that its experiments or its analyses could be reproduced?
No
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Would any other experiments or additional information improve the paper? How much better would the paper be if this extra work was done, and how difficult would such work be to do, or to provide?
Framing of certain questions is very vague .eg table 3, how many times have you visited a dentist till now.
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Is this paper outstanding in its discipline? (For example, would you like to see this work presented in a seminar at your hospital or university? Do you feel these results need to be incorporated in your next general lecture on the subject?) If yes, what makes it outstanding? If not, why not?
No
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Other Comments:
The language and english is poor. There are gramatical mistakes in the abstract and conclusion. the references have not been cited properly. The reference 1 is incomplete.
the authours could have structured the questionnaire in to various attributes.
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Competing interests:
None
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Invited by the author to review this article? :
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Have you previously published on this or a similar topic?:
No
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References:
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Experience and credentials in the specific area of science:
Over 5 years
- How to cite: Sharma A .Dentist-Patient Relationship, Patient Perceptions Towards Dentist and Dental Practice In Khammam[Review of the article 'Dentist-Patient Relationship, Patient Perceptions Towards Dentist and Dental Practice In Khammam. ' by Sivakalyan K].WebmedCentral 2013;4(3):WMCRW002635
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What are the main claims of the paper and how important are they?
To determine the criteria considered by patients while selecting dentists.To assess the perception of patients towards dentists.To explore the patients current views of dentist, dentist behavior and dental practice.
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Are these claims novel? If not, please specify papers that weaken the claims to the originality of this one.
NA
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Are the claims properly placed in the context of the previous literature?
NA
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Do the results support the claims? If not, what other evidence is required?
NA
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If a protocol is provided, for example for a randomized controlled trial, are there any important deviations from it? If so, have the authors explained adequately why the deviations occurred?
NA
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Is the methodology valid? Does the paper offer enough details of its methodology that its experiments or its analyses could be reproduced?
NA
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Would any other experiments or additional information improve the paper? How much better would the paper be if this extra work was done, and how difficult would such work be to do, or to provide?
Description of reults is too lengthy- needs to be abridged.
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Is this paper outstanding in its discipline? (For example, would you like to see this work presented in a seminar at your hospital or university? Do you feel these results need to be incorporated in your next general lecture on the subject?) If yes, what makes it outstanding? If not, why not?
No.
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Other Comments:
Out of 150 subjects, 2 have not attended a clinic before- then, how can they be included in the study? They cannot be expected to answer the rest of the questions! so the whole result will be modified. "Each one of the patients was given a questionnaire from to complete it and they were collected back." what is this FROM?
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Competing interests:
None
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Invited by the author to review this article? :
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Have you previously published on this or a similar topic?:
No
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References:
None -
Experience and credentials in the specific area of science:
Academician and practitioner since 16 years
- How to cite: Anonymous.Dentist-Patient Relationship, Patient Perceptions Towards Dentist and Dental Practice in Khammam[Review of the article 'Dentist-Patient Relationship, Patient Perceptions Towards Dentist and Dental Practice In Khammam. ' by Sivakalyan K].WebmedCentral 2013;4(3):WMCRW002634
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What are the main claims of the paper and how important are they?
Main Claims were determine the criteria considered by patients while selecting dentists and to assess the perception of patients towards dentists.
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Are these claims novel? If not, please specify papers that weaken the claims to the originality of this one.
Yes
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Are the claims properly placed in the context of the previous literature?
No.. It could have been a little better.
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Do the results support the claims? If not, what other evidence is required?
Yes
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If a protocol is provided, for example for a randomized controlled trial, are there any important deviations from it? If so, have the authors explained adequately why the deviations occurred?
No
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Is the methodology valid? Does the paper offer enough details of its methodology that its experiments or its analyses could be reproduced?
Yes, the methodology is valid, but not explained. IEC approval not taken.
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Would any other experiments or additional information improve the paper? How much better would the paper be if this extra work was done, and how difficult would such work be to do, or to provide?
Results could have been tabulated well and discussion could have been written well.
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Is this paper outstanding in its discipline? (For example, would you like to see this work presented in a seminar at your hospital or university? Do you feel these results need to be incorporated in your next general lecture on the subject?) If yes, what makes it outstanding? If not, why not?
No
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Other Comments:
Referencing is not done correctly
Original article should have a detailed review, which is missing.
Grammatical errors could have been avoided
Spell check should have been done.
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Competing interests:
No
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Invited by the author to review this article? :
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Have you previously published on this or a similar topic?:
No
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References:
None -
Experience and credentials in the specific area of science:
NA
- How to cite: Shenoy N .Dentist patient relationship, patient preceptions towards dentist and dental practice in Khammam[Review of the article 'Dentist-Patient Relationship, Patient Perceptions Towards Dentist and Dental Practice In Khammam. ' by Sivakalyan K].WebmedCentral 2013;4(3):WMCRW002633
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This article examines the unique dentist-patient relationship.
It revealled that many patients (78.67%) in Khammam are satisfied with their dentists and that 91.33% are confident about the quality of the treatment. It is noted by the authors that when the expectations of the patient are met satisfaction increases.
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No. There are too many statistics which basically restate the same premise. This article needs alot of editing.
The authors state that when the patient is satisfied the oral health habits of the patient increases along with better use of dental services.
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