TY - JOUR
T1 - Economic impact of dental service utilization by older adults.
AU - Meskin, L. H.
AU - Dillenberg, J.
AU - Heft, M. W.
AU - Katz, R. V.
AU - Martens, L. V.
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was funded, in part, by from the American Fund for Dental Health.
PY - 1990/6
Y1 - 1990/6
N2 - A total of 747 general dental practitioners--in Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, and Minnesota--responded to a questionnaire in 1988 by completing a detailed productivity report of patient services performed during a specified period. The results, based on 11,909 patient visits and 22,712 dental procedures, indicated that stereotypes of older adults as underutilizers of dental care are incorrect. This finding and others, detailed within this article, indicate that older adults make up a substantial portion of regular patients and that their utilization of dental services should increase throughout 1990.
AB - A total of 747 general dental practitioners--in Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, and Minnesota--responded to a questionnaire in 1988 by completing a detailed productivity report of patient services performed during a specified period. The results, based on 11,909 patient visits and 22,712 dental procedures, indicated that stereotypes of older adults as underutilizers of dental care are incorrect. This finding and others, detailed within this article, indicate that older adults make up a substantial portion of regular patients and that their utilization of dental services should increase throughout 1990.
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U2 - 10.14219/jada.archive.1990.0107
DO - 10.14219/jada.archive.1990.0107
M3 - Article
C2 - 2112567
AN - SCOPUS:0025443049
SN - 0002-8177
VL - 120
SP - 665
EP - 668
JO - Journal of the American Dental Association (1939)
JF - Journal of the American Dental Association (1939)
IS - 6
ER -