Table 2.

Themes and Subthemes.

Theme	Subtheme
1: Dental regulation	Mouth-body divide and isolation
	Monitoring and quality assurance
	Funding and remuneration for preventive services
	Guidelines and contracts
	Education
2: Who provides prevention	Dentist’s perceived role
3: Knowledge and motivation	Frustration with patients
	Dentist knowledge
	Patient knowledge and motivation
4: Trust	Transparency in the system
	Dentist-patient relationship
5: Person-level factors	Sociodemographics
	Irregular access
	Cost to patients
	Dropping out of the system