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Decision, Risk, and Health Economic Analyses of Fissure Sealings

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The decision to seal or not to seal a fissure is subject to a range of influencing factors. In this chapter, these factors as well as the uncertainty around them are described, and methods to transparently and explicitly make the best decision under different situations are outlined. Such methods involve decision analysis, but also risk assessment and health economic evaluations. These methods are not readily available to clinicians in most cases, but are increasingly built into decision aids. More importantly, the underlying concept of consciously weighing different parameters against each other and comprehensively and systematically approaching a decision problem can be applied in daily life.

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Schwendicke, F. (2018). Decision, Risk, and Health Economic Analyses of Fissure Sealings. In: Bekes, K. (eds) Pit and Fissure Sealants. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71979-5_12

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