Frequency, variation and cost of dental extractions for adults in secondary care in Great Britain

Aims We have conducted a survey of administrative data, aiming to investigate the reported provision of dental extraction under general anaesthesia in the NHS for adults in secondary care in the following aspects: 1) anaesthetic data accessibility by NHS organisations; 2) the number and proportion of dental extraction episodes by anaesthetic modality and procedure type; 3) the economic cost of dental general anaesthesia (DGA) for adults; 4) variations in the anaesthetic provision between commissioning regions and organisation types