Tianviwat Sukanya, Chongsuvivatwong Virasakdi, Birch Stephen
Prince of Songkla University, Faculty of Dentistry, Songkhla, Thailand.
Asia Pac J Public Health. 2009 Jan;21(1):84-93. doi: 10.1177/1010539508327246. Epub 2008 Nov 17.
In this cross-sectional study, the cost of different dental services was estimated and the unit costs of dental services for schoolchildren were compared between 2 settings: hospital-based and community-based mobile dental clinics. Heads of all departments in a selected community hospital were invited to attend 2 workshops to collect relevant data. Unit costs of different dental services varied from 41 to 2693 baht, with services falling into 4 unit cost groups: very high, high, moderate, and low. The very-high-unit-cost services included rehabilitative dental services. The high-unit-cost services covered removal of an impacted tooth, root canal treatment, and tooth-color fillings. The moderate-unit-cost group included a wide range of other dental services, with screening and oral hygiene instruction in community-based dental clinics falling into the low-unit-cost group. Generally, services provided in the community-based mobile clinic had lower unit costs than the same services provided in the hospital dental clinic.
在这项横断面研究中，估算了不同牙科服务的成本，并比较了在两种环境下为学童提供牙科服务的单位成本：以医院为基础的和以社区为基础的流动牙科诊所。选定社区医院的所有科室主任受邀参加了两次研讨会以收集相关数据。不同牙科服务的单位成本从41泰铢到2693泰铢不等，这些服务分为4个单位成本组：非常高、高、中等和低。单位成本非常高的服务包括牙齿修复服务。单位成本高的服务涵盖阻生牙拔除、根管治疗和牙齿颜色填充。单位成本中等的组包括一系列其他牙科服务，在社区牙科诊所进行的筛查和口腔卫生指导属于单位成本低的组。一般来说，在以社区为基础的流动诊所提供的服务比在医院牙科诊所提供的相同服务单位成本更低。
