title: [Value(s)].
abstract: After a short explanation of the word value, the (cultural) value of teeth, the economic evaluation of dentistry and the payment criteria are being presented. The specific situation of health care as a service which deviates in quite a few aspects from the standard demand-supply model is being pointed out. Attention is drawn to key characteristics of the liberal professions such as the obligation to perform to the best of one's ability, not to a specific result. Function classification appears to offer possibilities for cataloguing the wide variation in practice settings. The well-known wage calculation of Professor De Lembre is being reviewed. Subsequently the analysis of cost variation and induced demand by extra services and profile shaping is being elaborated. Cost-benefit-analysis is the concluding item.
authors.affiliation: guido.vanbelle@tandarts.be
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Vanbelle
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D001294:Attitude to Health; D001530:Belgium; D002983:Clinical Competence; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D003469:Culture; D003657:Decision Making; D003752:Dental Health Services / Q000191:economics*; D003815:Dentists; D004468:Economics, Dental; D005250:Fees, Dental; D019981:Health Care Sector; D006801:Humans; D008389:Marketing of Health Services / Q000191:economics; D017009:Professional Autonomy; D012456:Salaries and Fringe Benefits; D012945:Social Values; D014070:Tooth