Costs and effectiveness of treatment alternatives for proximal caries lesions

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Schwendicke, Falk ^a   Meyer Lueckel, Hendrik ^b   Stolpe, Michael ^c   Dörfer, Christof Edmund ^d   Paris, Sebastian ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c KIEL INSTITUTE FOR THE WORLD ECONOMY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RESIN;

AGE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DENTAL CARIES; DENTAL SURGERY; ENDODONTICS; GERMANY; HEALTH CARE COST; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SIMULATION; TOOTH IMPLANT;

AGE FACTORS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DENTAL CARIES; GERMANY; HUMANS; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, ECONOMIC; MONTE CARLO METHOD; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84900314654     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0086992     Document Type: Article

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