title: Dental benefits--expanding access to dental care.
abstract: The Executive Director of the National Association of Dental Plans presents statistics describing recent trends in product mix, growth in voluntary benefits and referral plans, geographic concentration, and industry consolidation in the dental benefits industry. Current issues include dental workforce, the economy, human resources policies, and regulation. The issue of quality oral health care is identified as needing consensus definition by the entire dental industry.
authors.affiliation: National Association of Dental Plans, Dallas, Texas, USA. eireland@nadp.org
authors.forename: E F
authors.initials: EF
authors.lastname: Ireland
mesh_terms: D020408:Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act; D006297:Health Services Accessibility / Q000191:economics*; D006801:Humans; D007342:Insurance Benefits; D007343:Insurance Carriers; D007344:Insurance Claim Reporting / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D007347:Insurance, Dental; D008329:Managed Care Programs; D013219:State Government; D009626:Terminology as Topic; D014481:United States