ABSTRACT
There are indications of a growing public interest in aesthetic dental treatments. For want of reliable data, a group of 907 randomly selected Dutch individuals was questioned in order to give this apparent tendency a foundation in figures. The results of this study show that about 25% of the respondents received aesthetic dental treatment at some time, about 8% was treated during the past year, and almost 8% intended to undergo aesthetic dental treatment in the coming year. In this respect, tooth whitening was found to be the most popular treatment. The results of this study suggest that there is a positive attitude towards aesthetic dentistry and that women take a greater interest in it than men. Whether this interest will lead to a rise in the number of actual aesthetic dental treatments is still unclear.
