Beazoglou, Tryfon; Brown, L. Jackson; Heffley, Dennis - In: Social Science & Medicine 37 (1993) 12, pp. 1461-1472
Between 1950 and 1978, per capita real dental expenfitures in the U.S. grew at an average annual rate of 3.33%. Between 1978 and 1989 there was virtually no net growth in this measure of dental care utilization. This sharp curtailment of utilization growth has prompted debate about the sources...