[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 163 (Wednesday, August 23, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 43809-43810]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-20820]



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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Public Health Service


National Institutes of Health; Proposed Data Collection Available 
for Public Comment and Recommendations

    Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 
requires that the Federal agencies provide a 60-day notice in the 
Federal Register concerning each proposed collection of information. 
The National Institute of Dental Research (NIDR) of the National 
Institutes of Health is publishing this notice to solicit public 
comment on a proposed data collection: The Impact and Costs of Sealants 
in Young Child Populations.

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    Comments are invited on: (a) The need for the information (b) its 
practical utility, (c) the accuracy of the agency's burden estimate, 
and (d) ways to minimize burden on respondents. Send comments to Dr. 
Helen Gift, Chief, Disease Prevention and Health Promotion Branch, 
DEODP, NIDR, NIH, Natcher Building, Room 3AN-44D, 9000 Rockville Pike, 
Bethesda, MD 20892. Written comments must be received by [Federal 
Register insert the date 60 days following the publication.]. To 
request a copy of the data collection plan and instrument, call Dr. 
Gift on (301) 594-5579 (not a toll-free number).

Proposed Project

    The Impact and Costs of Sealants in Young Child Populations--New--
This study will assess the value (costs and effects) of providing 
dental sealants to the child population with erupted permanent teeth 
with occlusal surfaces (approximately ages 6-12) under alternative 
financial support programs in existing oral health care delivery 
systems and across two socioeconomic groups. The primary objectives of 
the study are to determine if various levels of dental insurance 
influence use of dental sealants, if costs attributable to sealants in 
a payment program provide value in terms of reduced caries, and if 
providing dental sealants to specific tooth surfaces of children merits 
the investment of limited resources within a larger oral health care 
program. The findings will provide valuable information concerning: (1) 
Real disease reductions possible using dental sealants for age-
appropriate child populations within the existing oral health delivery 
system, (2) the costs of, and estimated savings from, providing 
sealants rather than restorative care, and (3) the marginal benefits 
and cost benefits of adding sealants to ``normative'' caries prevention 
efforts in age-appropriate child populations. Burden estimates are as 
follows:

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                                                      No. of      Avg/  
                                          No. of     responses   burden/
                                       respondents      per     response
                                                    respondent   (hours)
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Parents..............................       3600           4       .125 
Children.............................       3600           4       .129 
Dentists.............................        400           1       .033 
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    Dated: August 16, 1995.
Yvonne H. du Buy,
Executive Officer, NIDR.
[FR Doc. 95-20820 Filed 8-22-95; 8:45 am]
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