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Dept of Health

Answer

Mr. Rendel: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list the number of claims for (a) precious metal based and (b) non-precious metal-based crowns and bridges in each of the last three years. [111724] Mr. Hutton: [holding answer 29 February 2000]: The tables show the number of claims scheduled for payment for crowns and bridges in precious and non-precious metal carried out in England from 1996-97 to 1998-99. General Dental Service: Number of treatments for crowns: 1996-97 to 1998-99 England Thousand _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 1996-97 1997-98 1998-99 Precious metal Crowns full or 0.75--precious 21.7 192.0 248.2 metal Bonded FJC--gold or precious 1,264.2 892.8 870.1 Total 1,285.9 1,084.8 1,118.3 Non-precious metal FJC--non-precious metal alloy 3.6 26.8 26.9 Bonded FJC--non precious 14.5 12.6 15.1 Total 18.1 39.4 42.0 Total for all metals 1,304.0 1,124.2 1,160.3 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. General Dental Service: Number of treatments for bridges {1}: 1996-97 to 1998-99 England Thousand _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 1996-97 1997-98 1998-99 Precious metal Retainers Retainer--gold-inlay compound 1.1 0.8 0.4 Inlay--compound confluent cavity 0.5 0.4 0.5 or 0.75 crown FJC 1.1 1.2 0.8 Retainer--other-FJC precious 1.1 0.9 1.4 Bonded FJC--gold or precious 174.1 142.0 156.0 Pontics Pontics--gold 1.4 1.2 1.1 Others precious 0.4 0.1 0.4 Bonded gold/precious 118.8 98.2 109.4 Total for precious metal{1} 298.5 244.8 270.0 Non-precious metal Retainers FJC non-precious 0.4 0.1 0.2 Bonded FJC non-precious 1.7 2.2 2.8 Acid etch retainer--metal 33.7 30.6 33.5 Pontics Other alloys non-precious 0.2 0.1 0.2 Bonded non-precious 1.2 1.7 2.0 Acid etch pontic--bonded 19.4 18.8 20.5 Total for non-precious metal{1} 56.6 53.5 59.2 Total for all metals{1} 355.1 298.3 329.2 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. {1} Figures for bridges are available only for the individual parts

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

345 c408-9W; 111724

Session

1999-00

Subjects

Dental services Dentistry Fees and charges Metals

Contains statistics

Yes