Dental services: an analysis of utilization over 20 years

Article Abstract:

More children, elderly people, and African-Americans visited a dentist in 1996 than in 1977. However, during the same period, the gap in dental services use between rich and poor grew bigger.

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The impact of insurance coverage on children's dental visits and expenditures, 1996

Article Abstract:

Medicaid coverage will not necessarily ensure that children will get the dental care they need. According to data from the 1996 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, 56% of children with private insurance made at least one visit to a dentist that year, but only 28% of children covered by Medicaid visited a dentist.

Evaluation, Children, Medicaid, Insurance

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Dental services: use, expenditures and sources of payment, 1987

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Only 42% of Americans visited a dentist in 1987, and even fewer poor Americans and ethnic minorities sought dental care. Americans generated $30 billion in dental expenses that year, of which a third was paid by insurers and $17 billion was paid out-of-pocket by the patient. The potential market for dental services is much larger than that which is currently being reached by dentists.

United States, Statistics, Demographic aspects, Dentistry, Oral hygiene

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