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KMID : 0355420100340040613
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Journal of Korean Academy of Oral Health
2010 Volume.34 No. 4 p.613 ~ p.620
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Estimation of socioeconomic costs on smoke-related oral diseases
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Hwang Ji-Min
Kim Eung-Kwon
Cho Young-Sik
Park Yong-Duk
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Abstract
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Objectives.The purpose of this study was to examine the types of oral diseases possibly caused by smoking and to estimate the socioeconomic costs of individual patients on the smoking-caused oral diseases.
Methods.For this study we selected 6 places of dental hospital level in Seoul and Metropolitan Area, and targeted total 236 clinical patients whom dentist recognizes among patients of complaining of oral-disease incidence caused by smoking from January 2010 to July.
Results.Among the oral diseases caused by the factor of smoking, periodontal diseases accounted for 40.7 percent, which was the highest percentage. And periodontal diseases required the greatest outpatient medical fee and direct/ indirect cost, and smoking cost linked to the diseases were highest as well.
Conclusions.The direct and indirect cost of the smoking-caused periodontal diseases were highest, which came to 16,684,269 won. So the government should try to push ahead with more aggressive and efficient antismoking policies to promote national oral health, to relieve the burden of medical fee and ultimately to ensure national economic growth and wellbeing.
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KEYWORD
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cost estimation, oral diseases, smoking
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