RETURN Randomized Controlled Trial to Increase Adult Routine Dental Visits

A behavioural intervention delivered at urgent dental care—comprising nurse conversations, videos, booklets, and goal-setting—increased patients' attempts to schedule routine dental visits and reduced dental anxiety, though the increase in actual planned visits was modest and not statistically significant.

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