Introduction
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Dental as well as medical therapies are increasingly provided with a focus on individual patient requirements and emotional well-being. Any patient-centered care of this type needs to be firmly grounded in a meaningful relationship between the patient and the dental team, communication being the key to establishing such a relationship [Patient outcomes can be improved further by one-on-one consultations in accordance with the principle of “shared decision-making” prior to treatment [An evidence-based strategy of this type can ensure that the clinician’s and patient’s expectations will converge, thus avoiding discrepancies [Shared decision-making is, by no means, a new concept of medical ethics [In clinical practice, these standards are often not fully met [Patient decision aids (PDAs) are tools that can be used to support the task of shared decision-making [Against this background, we designed a patient-centered survey to investigate the quality of prosthodontic consultations involving or not involving two commonly used PDAs. As null hypotheses, it was assumed that statistical differences in patient ratings would be observable neither (i) for both PDAs versus shared decision-making by oral conversation only; nor (ii) between consultations supported by either one of both PDAs.