title: The cost of school dental care: a preliminary economic analysis.
abstract: The cost of school dental care provided by the South Australian School Dental Service is compared with the cost of funding similar care through an hypothetical alternative based on fee-for-service. The results of both cost-benefit and cost-effective analysis suggest that the school dental programme is an economically acceptable method of delivering school dental care.
mesh_terms: D001315:Australia; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D003729:Dental Care / Q000191:economics*; D005250:Fees, Dental; D012571:School Dentistry / Q000193:education