Dentist visits of Syrian refugees and the cost of their dental healthcare
| dc.contributor.author | Koparal, Mahmut | |
| dc.contributor.author | Ege, Bilal | |
| dc.contributor.author | Keskinruzgar, Aydin | |
| dc.contributor.author | Yapici Yavuz, Gunay | |
| dc.contributor.author | Erdogmus, Zozan | |
| dc.contributor.author | Unsal, Mustafa Nafiz | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-03-08T08:42:17Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-03-08T08:42:17Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2019 | |
| dc.department | İnönü Üniversitesi | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | Aim: To investigate dental problems of Syrian refugees in southeast Turkey and assess the burden of their dental healthcare costs to government. Material and Methods: A retrospective study included dental records of Syrian refugees who applied to Adıyaman Dental Hospital (ADH), were compared with Adıyaman public by years.Results: In 2012, the most common treatments were tooth extraction and complicated tooth extraction, the total dental care cost of such refugee patients was $3,082.14 and the median cost per refugee was $4.43. The most common treatment provided to both the Adıyaman public and Syrian refugees in 2017 was dental filling. In the same year, total dental care cost of refugees was $603,303.69, the median cost per refugee was $22.20. The total dental care cost of the Adıyaman public was $3,869,524.96, the median dental care cost in Adıyaman public was $17.95 for one person in 2017.Conclusions: Dental problems of Syrian refugees and the financial burden of their dental healthcare to the government significantly increased.Keywords: Refugee; dental care cost; Syrian; immigrant; treatment; budget | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Koparal, M., Ege, B., Keskinruzgar, A., Yapici Yavuz, G., Erdogmus, Z., & Nafiz Unsal, M. (2021). Dentist visits of Syrian refugees and the cost of their dental healthcare . Annals of Medical Research, | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/11616/54699 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Annals of Medical Research | en_US |
| dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | en_US |
| dc.title | Dentist visits of Syrian refugees and the cost of their dental healthcare | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |
