Financing of Dental Services in Turkey: Opinions and Expectations of Dentists, Residents, and Patients

Abstract

Survey results indicate that the current financing system of dental services in Turkey is not satisfactory either for the providers or for the users.

Public preferences for seeking publicly financed dental care and professional preferences for structuring it

“…To our knowledge, this is the first study of its kind to compare public preferences for publicly financed dental care to professional preferences. Historically, there are relatively few studies that explore public preferences (10–15), and most are non‐comparable. Conversely, professional preferences for publicly financed dental care are well established in the international literature, and they reflect similar findings to this study (i.e.…”