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ReviewDentistry journal2026

Direct, Indirect, and Intangible Costs in the Management of Dental Caries in Children Under 18: A Systematic Review.

Darja Gostilo, Xenia Teplitzky, Blend Hamza, Georgios Tsilingaridis, Sivaprakash Rajasekharan, Līna Petrova, Megija Florentine, Shaju Jacob Pulikkotil

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Review in Dentistry journal, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Darja GostiloProf. Shaju Jacob Pulikkotil Group, Oral Health Research, Faculty of Dentistry, Rīga Stradiņš University, LV-1007 Riga, Latvia.
Xenia TeplitzkyProf. Shaju Jacob Pulikkotil Group, Oral Health Research, Faculty of Dentistry, Rīga Stradiņš University, LV-1007 Riga, Latvia.ORCID 0009-0001-7533-7439
Blend HamzaClinic of Orthodontics and Pediatric Dentistry, Center for Dental Medicine, University of Zurich, Plattenstrasse 11, 8032 Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0003-0493-2553
Georgios TsilingaridisDivision of Pediatric Dentistry, Department of Dental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0001-5361-5840
Sivaprakash RajasekharanELOHA (Equal Lifelong Oral Health for All) Research Group, Paediatric Dentistry, Oral Health Sciences, Ghent University Hospital, 9000 Ghent, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0003-3075-3356
Līna PetrovaProf. Shaju Jacob Pulikkotil Group, Oral Health Research, Faculty of Dentistry, Rīga Stradiņš University, LV-1007 Riga, Latvia.ORCID 0009-0003-2284-2591
Megija FlorentineProf. Shaju Jacob Pulikkotil Group, Oral Health Research, Faculty of Dentistry, Rīga Stradiņš University, LV-1007 Riga, Latvia.ORCID 0009-0001-2172-1902
Shaju Jacob PulikkotilProf. Shaju Jacob Pulikkotil Group, Oral Health Research, Faculty of Dentistry, Rīga Stradiņš University, LV-1007 Riga, Latvia.ORCID 0000-0001-5727-8255

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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cost analysisdental carieseconomic burdenpaediatric populationpreventive oral health

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PMID42782965
PMCPMC13605095

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