Comparison of potential long-term costs for preventive dentistry treatment of post-orthodontic labial versus lingual enamel cavitations and esthetically relevant white-spot lesions: a simulation study with different scenarios

Table 1 Subject sample and treatment characteristics

Orthodontic intervention: MB	Lingual	Labial	Lingual	Labial	Lingual	Labial	Lingual	Labial
Enamel defect interventions: 1, Fluoridation of WSL; 2, single surface restoration of WSL; 3, single surface restoration of cavitation	1 + 3	2 + 3	1 + 3	2 + 3	1 + 3	2 + 3	1 + 3	2 + 3
number of generated patients [n_sim]	1000000	1000000	1000000	1000000	1000000	1000000	1000000	1000000
max. Number of teeth 16–46	24	24	24	24	24	24	24	24
minimum age at treatment start (years)	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12
maximum age at treatment start (years)	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18
median time until death (mo)	696	696	696	696	696	696	696	696
maximum age (years)	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100
minimum bracket treatment duration (month)	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9
maximum bracket treatment duration (mo)	45	45	45	45	45	45	45	45
WSL incidence rate per month^a	0.0248	0.1537	0. 0248	0.1537	0. 0248	0.1537	0. 0248	0.1537
Cavitation incidence rate per month^a	0.0012	0.0015	0. 0012	0.0015	0. 0012	0.0015	0. 0012	0.0015
Dispersion parameter WSL [dis_WSL]	0.3	0.72	0.3	0.72	0.3	0.72	0.3	0.72
Dispersion parameter cavitation [dis_CAV]	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1

^aIncidence rates are based on previous reports by Knösel et al. (2015), and Richter et al. (2011) [2, 12]

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