Minor dental restorations found to decrease after implementation of sugar-sweetened beverage tax

A research aiming to look at charges of minor restorations earlier than and after the implementation of a Sugar Sweetened Beverage (SSB) tax within the metropolis of Boulder, Colorado, on July 1, 2017 was introduced on the 102nd General Session of the IADR, which was held along with the 53rd Annual Assembly of the American Affiliation for Dental, Oral, and Craniofacial Analysis and the forty eighth Annual Assembly of the Canadian Affiliation for Dental Analysis, on March 13-16, 2024, in New Orleans, LA, U.S..

The summary, “Minor Restorations Decreased after Implementation of Sugar Sweetened Beverage Tax,” was introduced throughout the “Oral Well being Insurance policies and Interventions” Oral Session that happened on Wednesday, March 13, 2024, at 3:15 p.m. Central Normal Time (UTC-6).

The research, by Eric Tranby of CareQuest Institute for Oral Well being, Boston, MA, U.S., analyzed dental claims knowledge from 2016-2023 for Colorado state residents residing in and outdoors the town of Boulder who acquired minor restorative care throughout the research interval. Poisson fashions examined the full variety of teeth and tooth surfaces per affected person receiving minor restorations earlier than and after the tax was utilized.

Distinction-in-difference analyses examined the month-to-month common variety of tooth restored between the 2 areas after the tax was applied.

The anticipated (common) variety of tooth surfaces and tooth with minor restorations per affected person was decrease by an element of 0.42 (i.e., 58% decrease) and .63 (i.e., 37% decrease), respectively, within the pre-tax interval in comparison with the post-tax interval in each the metro Boulder space and outdoors Boulder.

After the tax was applied, the month-to-month common variety of surfaces with minor restorations decreased by an element of 0.83 (i.e., 17% decrease) in metro Boulder in contrast with the skin Boulder space, whereas the month-to-month common variety of tooth restored decreased by 0.27 (i.e., 73% decrease).

The month-to-month common of minor restorations inside the metro Boulder decreased after SSB tax implementation in comparison with areas exterior Boulder, suggesting the tax had oral health advantages. Related evaluation completed for different counties and states that applied SSB doesn’t establish these identical oral well being advantages, suggesting that the outcomes rely, partially, on the way in which that tax is applied.

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