Health Care

State Dentistry

Control, direction and financing of the total dental care of the population by a national government.

National Library of MedicineMedical Subject Headings2026

Structured Summary

Abstract

Control, direction and financing of the total dental care of the population by a national government.

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Synonyms

7 entry terms
  • Dentistry, Socialized
  • Dentistry, State
  • Socialized Dentistry
  • Dentistries, Socialized
  • Dentistries, State
  • Socialized Dentistries
  • State Dentistries

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Aspects Covered

9 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, ethics, history, legislation & jurisprudence, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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Indexing Annotation

not for dent programs of individual states ( = specific dent program + specific state); specify country

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History Note

65

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Previous Indexing

  • State Medicine

MeSH Hierarchy

Tree Number

  1. N03w.787

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NLM Classification

W 260

AMA Style

References

  1. National Library of Medicine. State Dentistry. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D013218. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D013218
  2. State Dentistry. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q70470666