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Management of dental caries among children: a look at the cost-effectiveness
Management of dental caries among children: a look at the cost-effectiveness
- Source :
- Expert Review of Pharmacoeconomics & Outcomes Research. 18:127-134
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- Informa UK Limited, 2017.
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Abstract
- Dental caries is the most prevalent non-communicative disease worldwide. Although the etiological factors are well known for years, reducing the number of decayed and missing teeth in children still remains as a barrier. Preventive and curative options are numerous but little is known about their economical advantages. Selecting the intervention that offers the best balance of effectiveness and financial resources becomes crucial in the current situation of budget restrictions worldwide.This expert review summarizes available evidence on cost-effectiveness analyses of preventive and curative measures to manage dental caries in children.Preventive measures have been more extensively studied than dental caries treatment. Only water fluoridation and tooth brushing are well-established as cost-effective preventive approaches. Despite the increasing number of cost analysis treatment studies in the literature, most of them focus on the cost description, with no correlation to the intervention effectiveness. There is a current need of well-designed and well-reported cost-effectiveness regarding dental caries management.
- Subjects :
- Toothbrushing
business.industry
Cost effectiveness
Cost-Benefit Analysis
Health Policy
030206 dentistry
General Medicine
Disease
Dental Caries
stomatognathic diseases
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
stomatognathic system
Research Design
Fluoridation
Environmental health
Etiology
Humans
Medicine
Pharmacology (medical)
030212 general & internal medicine
Child
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 17448379 and 14737167
- Volume :
- 18
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Expert Review of Pharmacoeconomics & Outcomes Research
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....3694f77ae196208194beb70517673cc4
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/14737167.2018.1414602