Impact of Water Fluoridation on Dental Practice and Dental Manpower

Douglas, Bruce L.; Wallace, Donald A.; Lerner, Monroe; Coppersmith, Sylvia B.

doi:10.14219/jada.archive.1972.0059

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“…However, a study of paired, naturally fluoridated and nonfluoridated communities found only small differences in therapy, both as to quantity and type (136,137). Although no attempt was made to explain the smaller than expected difference, one hypothesis is that dentists do what they are trained to do and what they get paid for doing, whether the need is present or not.…”

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Prevention of Dental Disease: Caries and Periodontal Disease

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Freed²

1981

Annu. Rev. Public Health

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Prevention of Dental Disease: Caries and Periodontal Disease

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1981

Annu. Rev. Public Health

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“…Most studies have been concerned with children and it has been demonstrated that fluoridation lowers the per capita cost of their dental care by reducing both the amount and complexity of treatment. These savings in turn lead to a reduction in chairside time (1,4). Savings in the cost of treating 5-year-olds of 50-60% (1,9) and 13-16-year-olds of 35 % (3) have been estimated.…”

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Effect of fluoridation on the cost of dental treatment among urban Scottish schoolchildren

Downer

Blinkhorn

Attwood

1981

Comm Dent Oral Epid

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Dental treatment needs of 230 children aged 4 and 5 years and 288 aged 9 and 10 years who were lifetime residents of two towns, one fluoridated and the other non-fluoridated, were costed on the Resource Related Index. This index is based on the British National Health Service scale of fees for general dental practitioners. The overall cost of dental treatment required by 4- and 5-year-olds in the fluoridated community was 45% less than in the non-fluoridated community, The corresponding difference for 9- and 10-year-olds was 47%. The differences in the cost of treatment for dental caries only (fillings, extractions and general anaesthetics) were 56% in 4- and 5-year-olds and 76% in 9- and 10-year-olds in favour of the fluoridated community. In the latter community, no child examined required dental extractions under general anaesthesia. Certain assumptions made in the study and the implications of the findings in terms of cost savings brought about by fluoridation are discussed.

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Freeze¹,

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The Fluoride Wars

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Impact of Water Fluoridation on Dental Practice and Dental Manpower

Cited by 7 publications

References 10 publications

Prevention of Dental Disease: Caries and Periodontal Disease

Prevention of Dental Disease: Caries and Periodontal Disease

Effect of fluoridation on the cost of dental treatment among urban Scottish schoolchildren

Money, Motive, and Risk

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