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Dental insurance and equity of access to dental services

Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, 1976
Abstract The first‐year consequences of national dental insurance, introduced in Sweden in 1974, are examined here from the point of view of social justice. The concept of equity of access in medical care is discussed. In a local survey, a comparison is made between use of dental services in 1972, 1973, and 1974.
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Dental practice and dental insurance

The Journal of the American Dental Association, 2005
The time has come for dentists to recognize that the dental insurers, as an outside factor, must be considered when designing a practice business model. The same efficiencies that would be well-placed in any business now need to be considered carefully in a dental practice to keep income from being reduced.
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Insurance and the Dental Consultant

Dental Clinics of North America, 1987
This article attempts to familiarize the readers with types and functions of dental consultants. Included are suggested guidelines in the review of claims with helpful suggestions to expedite the claim-handling process. Emphasis is placed on traumatic claims rather than benefit claims.
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Dental insurance, attitudes to dental care, and dental visiting

Journal of Public Health Dentistry, 2012
AbstractObjective: Dental insurance status is strongly associated with service use. In models of dental visiting, insurance is typically included as an enabling factor. However, in Australia, people self‐select into health insurance (privately purchased) and levels of cover for dental services are modest.
Teusner, D., Brennan, D., Spencer, A.
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Dealing with dental insurance

The Journal of the American Dental Association, 2006
Dental insurance companies can have many different policies, with varying requirements depending on the company. This requires a tremendous amount of time on the part of dentists and their office teams to communicate with insurance companies, file all the proper data, acquire predetermination information when required and address a myriad of other ...
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Management of Dental Insurance in the Dental Office

Dental Clinics of North America, 1987
This article should assist the practitioner with the efficient flow of patients and paperwork in today's dental world. By providing a system to control and monitor the flow of insurance papers and by accepting the patient's third-party coverage partially or in full--rather than resisting it--the dentist will enjoy an increase in his or her patient ...
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Dental Insurance and Dental Care: the Role of Insurance and Income [PDF]

, 2007
This paper analyzes the effect of dental insurance on utilization of general dentist services by adult US population aged from 25 to 64 years. Our econometric framework accommdates endogeneity of insurance and the ordered nature of the measure of dental utilization.
Murat K. Munkin, Pravin K. Trivedi
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Dental Insurance and the Periodontal Patient

Journal of Periodontology, 1998
Approximately one‐half of the United States population is covered by a dental benefit plan. One‐fifth of that group is covered under various types of managed care contracts, and this number is said to be increasing by 15% to 20% per year. However, dentists report that these plans have not had a major impact upon their practices.
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The ins and outs of dental insurance

The Journal of the American Dental Association, 2005
In the past three decades, dental insurance has become a permanent fixture in the delivery of dental services. Some would argue that this has not been good for dentists. However, none will dispute that it is here to stay and that dentists must make some very important decisions in their practices with regard to dental insurance.
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