ArticleHealth services research2022
Does preventive dental care reduce nonpreventive dental visits and expenditures among Medicaid-enrolled adults?
Article in Health services research, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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- Racial and Ethnic Variations in Dental Care Utilization and Expenditures: Associations with Usual Source of Care and Foreign-Born Status.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2026Article
- Medicaid dental coverage and racial/ethnic variation in preventive dental care and unmet needs during pregnancy.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2026Article
- Investigation of the relationship between caries predisposition and salivary characteristics.European oral research · 2026Article
- [Formula: see text] : explainable attentive transformers for identifying the factors influencing dental visits to enhance dental data completeness.BMC oral health · 2025Article
- Financial and Psychosocial Consequences of COVID-19 for Dentists in Cyprus: Policy Dimensions.Cureus · 2025Article
- Variability in the utilization of preventive dental services among the underserved population of Indiana.PloS one · 2025Article
- The Relationship Between Dental Provider Density and Receipt of Dental Care Among Medicaid-enrolled Adults.Journal of health care for the poor and underserved · 2024Article
- Does preventive dental care reduce nonpreventive dental visits and expenditures among Medicaid-enrolled adults?Health services research · 2022Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo determine whether preventive dental visits are associated with fewer subsequent nonpreventive dental visits and lower dental expenditures. DATA SOURCES: Indiana Medicaid enrollment and claims data (2015-2018) and the Area Health Resource File. STUDY
designA repeated measures design with individual and year fixed effects examining the relationship between preventive dental visits (PDVs) and nonpreventive dental visits (NPVs) and dental expenditures. DATA COLLECTION/EXTRACTION
methodsNot applicable. PRINCIPAL
findingsOf 28,152 adults (108,349 observation-years) meeting inclusion criteria, 36.0% had a dental visit, 27.8% a PDV, and 22.1% a NPV. Compared to no PDV in the prior year, at least one was associated with fewer NPVs (β = -0.13; 95% CI -0.12, -0.11), lower NPV expenditures (β = -$29.12.53; 95% CI -28.07, -21.05), and lower total dental expenditures (-$70.12; 95% -74.92, -65.31), as well as fewer PDVs (β = -0.24; 95% CI -0.26, -0.23).
conclusionsOur findings suggest that prior year PDVs are associated with fewer subsequent NPVs and lower dental expenditures among Medicaid-enrolled adults. Thus, from a public insurance program standpoint, supporting preventive dental care use may translate into improved population oral health outcomes and lower dental costs among certain low-income adult populations, but barriers to consistent utilization of PDV prohibit definitive findings.
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