Cost is a barrier to dental treatment
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- Published: Thursday, 07 April 2011 16:32
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| According to the latest Adult Dental Health Survey just over a quarter (26 per cent) of adults say the type of dental treatment they have chosen in the past has been affected by the cost of the treatment. In addition almost a fifth (19 per cent) said that they have delayed dental treatment for the same reason. There is some overlap between the two groups. |
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In the current survey all adults were asked if the cost of dental treatment had influenced the type of treatment they received, or if they had ever delayed dental treatment because of its cost. These questions were asked to all adults whether they had indicated they attended for NHS or private dental care and reflect the impact cost may have had on type and timing of dental treatment over a life time.
Just over a quarter of adults (26 per cent) said that the type of dental treatment they opted to have in the past had been affected by the cost of this treatment and almost one-fifth (19 per cent) said that they had delayed dental treatment for the same reason. These were not completely overlapping groups as indicated by the finding that 15 per cent of adults indicated that both the type of treatment and timing of this treatment had been influenced by the cost in the past.
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