Evaluation of therapeutic effect and health economics of general anesthesia and routine outpatient dental treatment in children with severe early child caries.
- Author:
Ya Qi LIU
1
;
Qiong ZHANG
1
;
Yan WANG
1
;
Xing QU
2
;
Jing ZOU
1
Author Information
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords: cost; dental general anesthesia; health economic; severe early child caries; survival analysis
- MeSH: Anesthesia, Dental; Anesthesia, General; Child; Dental Care; Dental Caries; Dental Caries Susceptibility; Humans; Outpatients; Retrospective Studies
- From: West China Journal of Stomatology 2021;39(6):703-708
- CountryChina
- Language:English
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Abstract:
OBJECTIVES:To evaluate the efficacy and health economics of the comprehensive therapy for the children with severe early child caries (S-ECC) under dental general anesthesia (DGA) and conventional outpatient treatment to provide references for dentists and parents in the choice of clinical treatment.
METHODS:A retrospective cohort study was conducted on S-ECC children aged 36-71 months and who received dental treatment under general anesthesia or routine outpatient situation. The filled tooth survival rate, treatment cost, and cost-filled tooth survival time of the two groups were compared, and the curative effect and health economics was evaluated.
RESULTS:The filled tooth survival rate of the DGA group was higher than that of the routine outpatient group (
CONCLUSIONS:Compared with the conventional outpatient treatment group, the treatment outcomes of S-ECC under general anesthesia were better, and the costs were higher. However, no significant difference was observed in the total medical cost-filled tooth survival time between these two groups, and the conventional outpatient treatment did not have evident economic advantages.
