Economic cost of managing patients with oral potentially malignant disorders in Sri Lanka.
Hemantha AmarasingheRuwan D JayasingheDilantha DharmagunawardeneManjula AttygallaDinesh R KumaraSanjeewa KularatnaNewell W JohnsonPublished in: Community dentistry and oral epidemiology (2021)
Managing patients with an OPMD, even with annual monitoring, is less costly than managing patients with oral cancer. Out-of-pocket costs are very high, and these could be reduced by revising the National Management Guidelines to allow care closer to home.