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Future trends in dental benefits.
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Future trends in dental benefits.
Anderson MH.
519 N. 62 Street, Seattle, WA 98103. maxscruiszer@gmail.com.
Dentistry and dental payment systems as we know them today will
continue to evolve. Dentistry as practiced today and the prepayment
systems of dentistry are substantially different than they were fifty
years ago when dental insurance as we know it was first developed.
Dentistry has always changed with the development of our science and
the expression of dentistry's diseases in the populations we serve. The
changes that are likely to occur in the future will be focused on
improving health outcomes across risk-analyzed populations with the
goals of providing optimal health outcomes at reasonable costs.
Dentists will increasingly become engaged in the whole health of their
patients. Where sufficient correlations can be leveraged between
dentistry and overall health, medical plans will play an increasing
role in dentistry's future for two reasons. Given favorably altered
therapeutic outcomes for medical systems that preserve scarce
resources, it will be an economic imperative to engage the dental
system. It will also be the right thing to do from a total health
perspective. In the final analysis, this elevates the role of dentistry
and empowers the dentist to participate in the total health of their
patients.
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