Script for Follow-up Telephone Call

American 211 East Chicago Avenue Survey Center

Dental Chicago, Illinois 60611

Association (312) 440-2568

July 2007

Script for Follow-up Telephone Call

The American Dental Association’s (ADA) Survey Center is working with RTI International to collect information for the Division of Oral Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), on the critical area of infection control in dental settings. Over the past several weeks, we twice mailed you a copy of the Survey on CDC’s 2003 Infection Control Guidelines in Dental Care Settings and asked you to participate in this very important survey. Our records show that we have not yet received your completed questionnaire.

If you have already sent in your completed survey, thank you. If not, please take the approximately 15 minutes to complete the questionnaire and return it to us. Participation is voluntary, however, your assistance is absolutely necessary for this survey to be a success. If you are an ADA member, participation in this survey will not affect benefits or services provided by the ADA.

Information provided by the survey data will be used in ongoing efforts to protect patients, dentists, and other dental health care workers from infection and injury, and to develop the most effective strategies for promoting adoption of the latest guidelines.

If you are not currently in private practice, please indicate this on the survey and return it to us. Postage is already paid.

Please be assured that your name will not be associated with your answers and that your responses will be kept secure. The identification numbers are only used for tracking purposes until the data collection activity has been completed (up to six months). When data collection is complete, the list linking your number to information identifying you will be destroyed. Results from this project will be reported and published in aggregate form only, so no individuals will be identifiable. This data collection is authorized under Section 301 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 241). No identifying information will be released to other ADA agencies or to any outside groups.

If you have any questions, please call (312) 440-2568.