… that national dental expenditures … we adjusted the average national fees for selected dental
procedures for inflation, however, the increases in dental fees over the past 21 years were …

… effect of more dentists lowering price and full time cost from the … of dentists plus dummy
variables capturing the changes … total productivity of public dentists declined over 1975-1981 but …

… Dental fees are equal to the cost of the resources used to … The average hourly total
compensation per US worker in 1995 … It is important to note that we assumed no change in …

… rates were below 2%, but as shown in table 1, rejection rates … the cost of prevention is very
low when compared to treatment … prevalence of dental caries in Europe 1990–1995: ORCA …

… , lung cancer death rates increased from 1995 through 2002, … the United States occurring
from 1975 through 2002 that are … Absolute changes in cancer incidence and death rates were …

… The changes do not affect the core data or the conclusions of … (uterus), ovary, and oral
cavity in the most recent joinpoint … rates of thyroid cancer were noted from 1980 through 1995, …

… changes raise new research questions which need to be addressed to make caries prevention
and treatment more cost-… and dental caries [DePaola et al., 1975; Poulsen and Larsen, …

… Changes in survival rates over time were examined for the top … We compared survival rates
between these two periods by … ), colon/rectum, oral cavity and pharynx (oral cavity), leukemia, …

… care interval and frequency of visits, United States, July 1957–June 1959: Statistics on
time interval since last dental visit and frequency of dental visits during a year by age, sex, …

… cost of their treatment exceeds that of any other infectious disease. … A major change in the
oral flora occurs when teeth erupt into … and are more slowly degraded by oral bacteria (35, 95). …