Table 3.

Theme system: main, middle and sub themes.

Main themes	Middle themes	Sub themes	Named by:
			Both	Expert	Focus
Reasons for dental visits	Not precaution-oriented	Emergency	X
		Pain	X
		Bleeding		X
Barriers	Language	Little knowledge of German	X
		Misunderstandings		X
		Illiteracy		X
	Perceived significance	Little communication about oral health			X
		Low awareness for the importance of oral health	X
		Socio-economic status/employment			X
	Knowledge	Deficits in knowledge about oral health		X
		Little knowledge about the German oral health system		X
		Difficulties in filtering right information (oral health literacy)	X
		Fear of pain and costs	X
		Language	X
	Health socialisation	Different health care systems	X
		Less group prevention programs in young age		X
		Children are shaped by their parents	X
		Concepts of health and illness	X
		Look is more important than real health	X
		Patient-Doctor interaction	X
	Dentist interaction	Language	X
		Little information about patients		X
		Bigger time expenditure due to communication problems		X
		Prejudices towards persons with migration background	X
		Stigmatisation	X
Cultural sensitivity in dentistry	Diverse pictures of food and persons			X
	Simple language in descriptions		X
	Pictures and videos complementary to descriptions			X
	Multilingual dental practices			X
	Awareness campaigns for the importance of oral health			X
	Culturally sensitive dentists		X

= deductive.

= inductive.