Trends in Dental Insurance Claims in the United States Before and During the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic in 2020

Published in the Journal of Public Health Dentistry, this article reports trends in claims from private dental practices in the United States during 2019 and 2020. Claims from 3.8 million patients, which constituted the 5% random sample used for analysis, show that large decreases in treatment occurred from mid-March through the end of April 2020. Even when treatment numbers increased, the level in June 2020 was still low in comparison to June 2019.