this means the total yearly amount can be substantial for people with low income in addition similar to most countries dentistry is not induded in the public health care benefits package and is subject to higher copayments although all children and adolescents up to the age of are fully covered to be increased to in while sweden has very low levels of catastrophic expenditure due to health service utilisation some people report financial accessibility problems almost of people in the lowest income group reported some unmet needs for dental examination in compared to for the national average eurostat eusilc