title: Fee-for-service dentistry or managed care: one dentist's opinion.
abstract: Contrasts are drawn between dental care based on fee-for-service and managed care financial arrangements. The advantages of fee-for-service include (for the profession) slow acceptance of managed care in dentistry compared to medicine; (for society and the patient) more community service, higher technical quality of work, and stimulation of innovations; and (for the individual dentist) the strong dentist-patient bond as well as professionalism.
authors.forename: R D
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Wilson
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D002983:Clinical Competence; D003153:Community Health Services; D003363:Cost Control; D003729:Dental Care / Q000191:economics*; D003752:Dental Health Services; D003812:Dentist-Patient Relations; D003815:Dentists; D004059:Diffusion of Innovation; D018588:Fee-for-Service Plans / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration; D005260:Female; D005376:Financial Management / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008329:Managed Care Programs / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration; D011215:Practice Management, Dental / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration; D011361:Professional Competence; D011787:Quality of Health Care