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Table 2 The main questions of the topic guide

From: Oral health policymaking challenges in Iran: a qualitative approach

What do you think about the oral health policy implementation in the country? Are they successful or not?

In your opinion what are the most problems and barriers in oral health policy implementation in the country?

Can you give some examples of the problems in the way of implementing oral health policies?

Can you differentiate among the problems in the scopes of prevention, treatment and education?

Which of these three do you think need more consideration or even reform?

What do you think about the resources? What kind of resources you think are essential for implementing oral health policies?

What do you think about the role of insurance packages?

How about the regional executive problems, can you exemplify some problems in this area.

How about the policies? In your opinion are all the problems associated with the inappropriate policy implementations or policymaking as well? (the same as defining the agenda, etc.)

How about the structure, organization or other infrastructures? How can you illustrate their role?

If there is any other concept you want to point that was not mentioned in the previous questions please talk about them.