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Over the past 2 decades, the cost of dental care has increased about 30% per person in the United States, according to a recent perspective in The New England Journal of Medicine.
In 2018 alone, Americans spent approximately $55 billion in out-of-pocket dental costs, representing more than 25% of all out-of-pocket health care spending, Rena N. D’Souza, DDS, MS, PhD, director of the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR), Francis S. Collins, MD, PhD, former director of the NIH, and Vivek H. Murthy, MD, MBA, the U.S. Surgeon General, wrote.
The NEJM perspective draws

Over the past 2 decades, the cost of dental care has increased about 30% per person in the United States, according to a recent perspective in The New England Journal of Medicine.
In 2018 alone, Americans spent approximately $55 billion in out-of-pocket dental costs, representing more than 25% of all out-of-pocket health care spending, Rena N. D’Souza, DDS, MS, PhD, director of the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR), Francis S. Collins, MD, PhD, former director of the NIH, and Vivek H. Murthy, MD, MBA, the U.S. Surgeon General, wrote.
The NEJM perspective draws