Evaluation of restorative treatment need in dental services: Based on community needs Running title: Evaluation of restorative treatment need in dental services

The first and most important step in planning for any system is need assessment and with identifying the most important needs, is a basis for setting goals and appropriate context for organizing other elements. This study aimed to evaluate of restorative treatment need in dental services and was done based on community needs. This was a descriptive-cross sectional study and data gathering was done by an objective form that confirmed its validity. Restorative dental ‎services of 1027‏ visited patients with non-randomized judgment sampling ‎consecutive during three months at summer in 2012 in Isfahan Farhangian dental clinic was noted on forms and entered into statistical software SPSS (version 17) and results reported. Chi-square test was used for data analyzing. Significant level P <0.05 was considered. Most of the patients were female (65%). Restoration of posterior teeth, including 78.5% of total services and most patients’ needs for restorative services based on number of teeth were amalgam (67.4%) and least was glass ionomer (0.5%). Amalgam and composite build up restorations had high proportion in restorative services (42%). Totally women referring to dentist is more than men and more patients have more than one restorative dentistry need. High prevalence of need to build up restoration means that many caries in the population are at high level, it seems that low level of oral hygiene and neglect and lack of access to have visit, are its reasons.