...Scott Burris Mark Carl Rom. Fatal Extraction: The Story behind the Florida Dentist Accused of Infecting His Patients with HIV and Poisoning Public Health. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1997. 226 pp. $23.00 cloth. Copyright © 1998 by Duke University Press 1998 References Breyer , S...

... and number of dental hygienists per dentist; and (3) restrictions on the form of organization and ownership of dental practices. The empirical results suggest that limits on number of offices per dentist and absence of reciprocal licensing arrangements are associated with higher fees and net incomes among...

... and full price is apparently insensitive to dentist density. Communities seeking higher fees and shorter waits attract more dentists per capita. Two additional studies cited further support this expanded approach. Patient waiting time is an important component of price. Copyright © 1981 by the Dept...

...John E. Kushman Evidence from the economics literature is examined with reference to whether prices of dental services tend to equal or exceed production costs, and whether dentists may be characterized as price-takers or price-setters. Ability to generalize from the methods and conceptualization...

... countries, dental nurses treat children in the schools. The quality of care they provide is found comparable to that provided by dentists, and the estimated and experienced costs of such treatment are often considerably lower than when dentists provide it. Access is a serious problem for children's programs...

... was a necessary, but not sufficient, condition for the maximization of dentist profits, and thus organized dentistry began its turn inward, focusing on the competitive behavior of existing dentists. Copyright © 1984 by the Dept. of Health Administration, Duke University 1984 Organized Dentistry...

... were able to thwart this cost-control effort, a 1986 Supreme Court decision, FTC v. Indiana Federation of Dentists , found that a boycott of insurers by dentists violated Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act. Further investigation of recent developments, including the recent Wickline v...

... patients. In 1977, the government passed a Health Care Cost Containment Act which ordered several measures to curb costs: prospectively negotiated ceilings on expenditures for physicians' services, dentists' services and prescription drugs; strengthening of utilization review; composition of a unified fee...

... competition policy would require removal of supply-side restraints on health providers. Based on evidence about the evolution of restraints on physicians, dentists, and optometrists in one state, this article speculates on the political feasibility of removing supply-side restraints and thereby implementing...

...: Center for Naval Analysis, 1978)) argues that state restrictions promote higher quality. 20. B. Boulier, “Supply Decisions of Self-Employed Professionals: The Case of Dentists,” Southern Economic Journal 45 (January 1979): 892-901. 21. A. S. De Vany, et al., The Role of Regulation and Patient...

...Warren Greenberg Copyright © 1981 by the Dept. of Health Administration, Duke University 1981 650 Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law logically cease to produce that service, losing clientele to the lower-priced resource. On the other hand, if dentists were able...

... Reform to the South Carolina Dental Medicaid System. Health Services Research 40 : 1078 -1091. Otto, M. 2007 . For Want of a Dentist: Prince George's Boy Dies after Bacteria from Tooth Spread to Brain. Washington Post , February 28 . Robinson, V. A., R. G. Rozier, and J. A. Weintraub...

... of advertising, and thus reduce the possibilities of the infighting that could occur were the market to become saturated. Evidence on the use of auxiliaries is quite strong and shows the poten­ tial for significant increases in efficiency and dentist incomes. However, the question of price...

... Care,” American Journal of Public Health 69 (July 1979): 699-703. 6. L. Benham, A. Maurizi and M. W. Reder, “Migration, Location and Remu- neration of Medical Personnel: Physicians and Dentists,” The Review ofEco- nomics and Statistics, August 1978. 7.B. L. Boulier, “Supply Decisions...

... profession and the long-run high rates of return on investment in dental education. Other examples of noncompeti- tive behavior have included restrictions on: overt price competition and advertising, use of auxiliaries and structure of practices, and movement of dentists Yet, all...

...- utes concerning public health care; the most important of these resulted in the founding of the Federal Department of Health and Human Services in 322 Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 196 1; established statutory fee-schedules for physician services and dentist services in 1965...

.... Kastelic and Schlamberger (1973) and Kastelic and colleagues (1976) used demographic models of the physician and dentist populations to make planning estimates for five-year periods. Ravnikar and colleagues (1986) for the first time compared the numeric growth of health profes- sionals...

... and physician’s assistants. But this article will not attempt to comment, except in passing, on conflicting state positions with respect to whether osteopaths, dentists, podiatrists, chiro- practors, naturopaths , or even veterinarians may practice acupuncture. McRae U.S...

... practitioner physicians, dentists, opticians, and nonhospital-based pharma- cists, if they work for the NHS, are reimbursed by a formula based on a base salary, per capita payment, and items-of-service payments. It is interesting to note that the ownership of facilities and employment of staff...

...- tivesindirect If thintereste deriving from membership in the pro- fession or occupation being regulated disqualifies an individual from serving on a regulatory board, the result would be that dentists could not examine dentists, attorneys could not serve on bar examiner boards, and pharmacists...