Dentistry Today: Dentistry in Sweden Too Expensive?
Sveriges Radio International has Dental Care Too Expensive.
A new study reveals that half of low income earners here can’t afford to go to the dentist.
Conducted by Statistics Sweden for the Swedish Public Health Institute, the survey indicates that the risk of poor dental health is six times higher among low income earners, and 30 percent more than last year can’t afford needed care.
Dental care is not included in Sweden’s National Health Service.
Last month the newspaper Dagens Nyheter reported that common dental surgery can cost six times as much here as in some neighboring countries.
Flap is bewildered after doing some research into Swedish dentistry.
Here is a piece entitled Dentistry in Sweden which details a highly socialized system of dental healthcare – with wide participation by the government of Sweden. For example, the government provides free dental care for all children until the age of 19 through general taxation.
Stay tuned.
Update #1
The Local has Poor Swedes priced out of dentistry.
Many Swedes on low incomes are suffering from poor dental health because they cannot afford to go to the dentist, according to a new report commissioned by the Swedish National Institute of Public Health, which calls for increased state subsidies for dental treatment.
The reports authors call for increased state subsidies for dental check-ups. The National Insurance Administration currently pays 21 percent of the cost for a normal check-up, while the patient pays for the rest.
The report says that people with financial difficulties would be better able to afford dentistry if this subsidy was raised by a few percent.
And the poor folks in the UK cannot find a dentist to take them.
Good grief…..
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