The impact of underutilization of preventive dental care by adult <scp>Medicaid</scp> participants

Abstract

Regular preventive dental care in the lookback period was associated with significant savings in overall dental care costs when compared to dental care costs for those individuals who received no or few preventive visits. Prior preventive dental care was also associated with lower rates of ED-NTDC utilization, oral surgery, and dental-related opioid prescriptions.