Table 1.
Unit cost of a filling, 2009 GBP.
Table 2.
Unit cost of a tooth extraction, 2009 GBP.
Table 3.
Unit cost of a decayed primary tooth, 2009 GBP.
Table 4.
Sensitivity analysis scenarios, 2009 GBP (in bold italic are values that differ from the baseline scenario).
Table 5.
Annual cost of nursery toothbrushing programme in 2011/12 financial year and deflated to 2009/10, by Scottish Health Board.
Table 6.
Estimated number of filled and decayed teeth and number of children with missing teeth in five year old population in Scotland, 1999/00–2009/10.
Fig 1.
Costs of actual and anticipated dental treatments in five-year-old children (baseline scenario), cost of nursery toothbrushing programme and d3mft over time—Scotland, by financial year.
d3mft index is the number of obviously decayed, missing (due to decay) and filled teeth per child. The “3” in the d3mft index indicates decay into dentine.
Fig 2.
Annual cost of nursery toothbrushing programme and costs / expected savings resulting from actual and anticipated dental treatments—in comparison with 2001/02 dental treatment costs.
The figure shows data for Scotland, 2001/02-2009/10 financial year. The whiskers represent costs / expected savings resulting from actual and anticipated dental treatments in the case of a ‘low GA cost’ and ‘high GA cost’ scenarios.
Table 7.
Population of 5 year old / 3–4 year old children, costs and expected savings of dental treatments per 5 year old child, and cost of nursery toothbrushing programme per 3–4 year old child, Scotland, 1999/00–2009/10 financial years.
Fig 3.
Costs of decayed, extracted and filled teeth per 1000 population, by Depcat (Depcat 1 = least deprived, Depcat 7 = most deprived).
Fig 4.
Sensitivity analysis: total cost of actual and anticipated dental treatments—Scotland, 1999/00-2009/10 financial year.
Total cost of actual and anticipated dental treatments is a sum of calculated annual costs of extractions, filled teeth and anticipated further cost of decayed teeth.