Question · asked by 1 review
Dental treatments, care, and services (the decision context): Willingness to pay for dental care
- Population
- (Potential) patients with freedom of choice regarding dental treatments, including parents and caregivers deciding for children or elderly; patients with special needs excluded
- Intervention
- Dental treatments, care, and services (the decision context)
- Comparison
- Not specified
- Outcome
- Willingness to pay for dental care
Thirty-seven articles examined willingness to pay for dental care.
What each review found
Current versions only| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
Dental treatments including dental care and services Willingness to pay for dental care · Potential patients in dental care, including parents or caregivers making treatment decisions; excludes patients with… · 49 countries; varied dental, health-care, educational, and private settings Thirty-seven articles examined willingness to pay for dental care. Decision-making regarding dental treatments - What factors matter from patients' perspective? A systematic… (2025) All outcomes | Number of articles examining willingness to pay 37 | 37 studies | GRADE not reported |
Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.
The reviews
| Review | Searched up to | Included studies | AMSTAR 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Decision-making regarding dental treatments - What factors matter from patients' perspective? A systematic review. 2025 All outcomes | 2007 to January 2021 (initial search 2007 to 2018; update search 2019 to January 2021) | 128 | Not applicable |
Related questions
The same intervention and outcome, asked in another population or against another comparator.
- Dental treatments, care, and services (the decision context) vs No comparator · (Potential) patients with freedom of choice regarding dental treatments, including… · 1 review
Studies behind the findings
The primary studies the full-text reviews tie to this outcome. Reviews with headline outcomes only do not list them here.
- Eliciting Preferences for Adult Orthodontic Treatment: A Discrete Choice Experiment · 2021 · included by 1 of these review
- Willingness to Pay for Mandibular Overdentures: A Societal Perspective · 2019 · included by 1 of these review
- Willingness to pay for osteoporosis risk assessment in primary dental care. · 2019 · included by 1 of these review
- Patients' and Parents' Valuation of Fluoride. · 2019 · included by 1 of these review
- Natural tooth preservation versus extraction and implant placement: patient preferences and analysis of the willingness to pay · 2017 · included by 1 of these review
- Minimally‐invasive dental anesthesia: Patients' preferences and analysis of the willingness‐to‐pay index · 2017 · included by 1 of these review
- Willingness of Parents to Pay for Space Maintainer Therapy for their Children · 2017 · included by 1 of these review
- Measuring the Monetary Value of Dental Implants for Denture Retention: A Willingness to Pay Approach. · 2017 · included by 1 of these review
- Tooth replacement for partially dentate elders: A willingness-to-pay analysis · 2016 · included by 1 of these review
- Willingness to pay for orthodontic treatment in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Riyadh Province · 2016 · included by 1 of these review
- Factors affecting patient valuations of caries prevention: Using and validating the willingness to pay method · 2015 · included by 1 of these review
- Are people who still have their natural teeth willing to pay for mandibular two‐implant overdentures? · 2013 · included by 1 of these review
- Putting your money where your mouth is: Parents' valuation of good oral health of their children · 2012 · included by 1 of these review
- Esthetic perception and economic value of orthodontic appliances by lay Brazilian adults · 2012 · included by 1 of these review
- Willingness and ability to pay for unexpected dental expenses by Finnish adults. · 2012 · included by 1 of these review
- Factors affecting the willingness to pay for implants: A study of patients in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. · 2012 · included by 1 of these review
- Auslandszahnersatz und Dentaltourismus – Zahlungsbereitschaft und Einflussfaktoren auf die Nachfrage nach ausländischem Zahnersatz in… · 2010 · included by 1 of these review
- Willingness to pay for implant therapy: a study of patient preference · 2010 · included by 1 of these review
- Chau 2014 · included by 1 of these review
- Chebib 2020 · included by 1 of these review
- Dalanon 2018 · included by 1 of these review
- Hansen Edwards 2013 · included by 1 of these review
- Manickam 2010 · included by 1 of these review
How reviews are matched to this question
Reviews word the same question differently. Four decision models (TypeSafe's Jev, Liquid AI's d1-ultra, SubQ Snap and Baseten's Elephant) judged each wording of the population, intervention, comparator and outcome against the others; two wordings count as the same when at least three of them agree and none clearly disagrees, and findings count as this question only when all four elements match. Timing, setting and subgroup never split a question: they are shown on each finding.