We attempted to establish standard patient measures by which to evaluate patients' reactions to dental care and to relate them to charasteristics and attitudes of dental students. Three sets of analyses were reported: relationships of student attitudes, personalities, and grades; relationships of patients' dissatisfaction, anxieties, and discontinuation of treatment; and relationshps between dental student measures and patient measures.
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