Costs of providing dental services to adult mentally retarded: a preliminary report.
This study reports on the hourly costs of providing comprehensive dental services to mentally retarded adults in a hospital-based group dental practice. The analysis indicated average total hourly costs of $56.11 for dentist-provided services an $22.25 for dental hygienist-provided services. When compared to the revenues available for program maintenance, a net hourly deficit of $18.82 per dentist hour and $9.89 per dental hygienist hour resulted. The implications of this operating loss on the continued care of this patient population are discussed.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003237:Connecticut; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D003752:Dental Health Services / Q000191:economics*; D003756:Dental Hygienists / Q000191:economics; D003815:Dentists / Q000191:economics; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability; D008297:Male; D008484:Medicaid; D008875:Middle Aged