An Assessment of Implant Coverage in Dental Benefit Plans

Thornton, Linda J.

doi:10.1097/00008505-200101000-00018

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“…This prevented that the cost estimation would have been influenced by subjective factors as service provided by individual dentists to individual patients. For the same reason, reimbursement by health insurances was not considered, because coverage by insurance providers may differ between agencies, policies, patient characteristics, and countries (Thornton ; Albrektsson & Donos ).…”

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Cost estimation of single‐implant treatment in the periodontally healthy patient after 16–22 years of follow‐up

Dierens

Vandeweghe

Kisch

et al. 2014

Clinical Oral Implants Res

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Patients should be informed about additional costs related to complications with single implants. The mean additional cost spent on complications was almost one-quarter of the initial treatment price. A majority of implants presented with lower additional costs, whereas the highest complication costs were related to a smaller group with 22% of the implants needing more than half of the initial cost for complication management. Expenses were significantly different for various prosthetic designs.

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