Brown L J, Lazar V
American Dental Association, Health Policy Resources Center, Chicago, Ill. 60611, USA.
J Am Dent Assoc. 1998 Nov;129(11):1615-21. doi: 10.14219/jada.archive.1998.0112.
Using the reported gross billings from the annual ADA "Survey of Dental Practice," the authors estimated the total national dental expenditures according to various dentist characteristics for the period of 1985-1995. These selected characteristics are specialty, office time, number of dentists in the practice, sex, length of experience and U.S. region. As government agencies do not report dental expenditures by such dentist characteristics, the data presented in this article may be the first of their kind to be estimated and published.
作者利用美国牙科协会（ADA）年度“牙科实践调查”所报告的总账单金额，根据1985 - 1995年期间不同牙医特征估算了全国牙科总支出。这些选定的特征包括专业、办公时间、诊所牙医数量、性别、从业年限和美国地区。由于政府机构并未按此类牙医特征报告牙科支出，本文所呈现的数据可能是首批经估算并公布的此类数据。
