The cost of school dental care: a preliminary economic analysis.
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.
D001315:Australia; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D003729:Dental Care / Q000191:economics*; D005250:Fees, Dental; D012571:School Dentistry / Q000193:education