General health, healthcare costs and dental care use of elderly with a natural dentition, implant-retained overdenture or conventional denture: an 8-year cohort of Dutch elderly (aged 75 and over)

Table 3 Healthcare costs (per person) of Dutch elderly in the period 2009–2016

	2009 (baseline)			2012			2014			2016
	ND^a	CD^b	IOD^c	ND	CD	IOD	ND	CD	IOD	ND	CD	IOD
	N = 143,199	N = 18,420	N = 6503	N = 128,100	N = 14,918	N = 5994	N = 113,420	N = 12,241	N = 5438	N = 97,196	N = 9830	N = 4763
Healthcare	€	€	€	€	€	€	€	€	€	€	€	€
Dental care	282	870	3204	251	274	320	262	448	537	255	484	637
General practitioner	156	202	159	159	193	164	193	226	203	181	215	198
Specialist care	2988	3661	3243	3442	3835	3736	3531	3823	3851	3571	3677	3973
Nursing home	–	–	–	31,505	34,285	28,232	42,597	43,407	42,645	48,935	47,361	46,116
Mental health	3345	4246	4395	3026	3363	3615	3726	4236	3377	3697	3593	4817
Physiotherapy	1010	1158	947	1066	1116	1034	1184	1202	1149	1219	1204	1157
Allied healthcare	231	265	203	356	413	337	277	275	271	264	269	267
Pharmacy	1029	1221	1095	962	1132	1063	941	1109	1083	962	1131	1135

^a ND Natural dentition ^b CD Conventional denture ^c IOD Implant-retained overdenture

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