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Dental Lifeline Network

Volunteer comprehensive dentistry for vulnerable older, disabled and medically needy adults

Research time: ~12 min on GPT-6 Astra Light + ~12 min on GPT-6 Astra Medium + ~13 min on GPT-6.1 Sol
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  • Source audit — checked claims, assumptions and calculations.
  • Modeling — estimated costs, QALYs and uncertainty.

Updated: 2026-10-06

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Summary

What do they do? Dental Lifeline Network matches eligible adults with volunteer dentists and laboratories for comprehensive care. Colorado has separate Denver-metro and rest-of-state coordinators; treatment is non-emergency and noncosmetic. Applicants may qualify through age, disability, medical necessity or recurrent infection when unable to afford care.

Why we’re interested in this organization:

  • A concrete volunteer treatment mechanism operates in Denver.

  • Accepted national health and signed-resource evidence is reused transparently.

  • Paid care, free alternatives and genuinely additional care are separate cohorts.

Our main reservations:

  • Current unique Denver completions and restricted capacity are unknown.

  • National general donations do not guarantee Denver allocation.

  • The currently linked state report is2021–22, not current annual treatment.

What do you get for your dollar? $3.4M per DALY in Denver. DALY is our one-year comparison unit. QALY-based health gains and income-welfare equivalents retain their original assumptions; they are not measured clinical DALYs. Reused accepted national hypothetical gift model with judged Denver benefit share; not a verified Colorado-restricted funding offer..

Fresh local page links2021–22state report409served/144waitlist. Neither historical statecount nor current nationalDDS4367served is Denvercompleted patients.

1. What do they do?

Current Colorado eligibility includes over60, temporary/permanent disability, medical need or recurrent infections. National65+criteria are not substituted for local rules. Separate Denver-metro and rest-of-state coordinators demonstrate local operations, not all national benefits belonging to headquarters.

2. Monitoring and information sharing

Request current unique completed Denver patients, residence, case mix, waits, state/national coordinated budget and volunteer capacity. Obtain a confirmed Colorado-restricted funding offer before making any local marginal-gift claim.

3. Qualitative assessment

The currently linked Colorado report is printedMay2023 and reports fiscal2021–22 409served/144waitlist; it is not a current completed cohort. The accepted USA model's original denture trial supports selected oral function, not generic utility conversion; observational employment associations are not causal wage gains. Existing evidence and original session identities are reused, not counted as new national research.

4. What do you get for your dollar?

Exact accepted national hypothetical$10,000gift framework reused: support1500/candidate, funding response.5, capacity8, completion.65, purchaser share.05, nonpurchaser additionality.75, annual utility.025for3finite years and reliefdelay1year are judgments. New Denver g=.04is explicitly an unmeasured share of the national incremental cohort and its full resource burdens, tested at.01/.08/0/1. Not derived from headquarters or historical state count. Outside-Denver effects remain unpriced, not zero whole-gift EV. Same-time paid/free alternatives cancel equivalent clinical gain/harm; full application cash, travel, missed net pay and maintenance remain. Eligible responsive workers.1 receive300net aftertax/benefit pay for2finiteyears with25%positive welfare independence; negative pay stays full. Generic utility-null can coexist with oral-function earnings, but no additional oral care removes dependent workers. Volunteer actual net cash loss is separately stressed. No retail donated value, saved-life medical clearance or survivor ordinary wages are credited.

Model, assumptions and sensitivity

Exact reused national donor10kframework; partial judged Denver attribution, not annual operating-cost ratio or local funding offer.

Judged .04national incremental cohort/resource share inside ten-county DenverCBSA; .01/.08/0/1sensitivities; no residence/capacity measurement.

N=min(G*b/c,capacity), C=N*r; buyers=C*p, free=C*(1-p)*(1-s), A=C*(1-p)*s. Clinical=g*[A*(u*exp(-ln(1+d)*L)*integral_0^T exp(-(ln(1+d)+m+loss+catchup)*t)dt-h*exp(-ln(1+d)*L))-N*ha]. Resources sum signed per-household logarithmic receipt flows. Positive wages use independence; negative wages and direct cash burdens are charged fully. Combined=clinical+resources; donor price=10*G/combined only if positive and known. Denver g=.04 applied once to health and signed resources.

G
10000 model parameter (judgment). Conventional national hypothetical gift10,000, not observed annual cost or verified offer. [denver-services] [dln-income-method]
maxGift
25000 model parameter (judgment). Explicit conditional judgment, not a measured causal recipient coefficient; adverse and null scenarios test this assumption. [denver-services] [dln-income-method]
c
1500 model parameter (judgment). Explicit conditional judgment, not a measured causal recipient coefficient; adverse and null scenarios test this assumption. [denver-services] [dln-income-method]
b
0.5 model parameter (judgment). Reused national funding response.5, distinct from eventual completion. [denver-services] [dln-income-method]
capacity
8 model parameter (judgment). Explicit conditional judgment, not a measured causal recipient coefficient; adverse and null scenarios test this assumption. [denver-services] [dln-income-method]
r
0.65 model parameter (judgment). Reused eventual equivalent completion.65; servedcounts not completed outcomes. [denver-services] [dln-income-method]
purchaseShare
0.05 model parameter (judgment). Explicit conditional judgment, not a measured causal recipient coefficient; adverse and null scenarios test this assumption. [denver-services] [dln-income-method]
s
0.75 model parameter (judgment). Explicit conditional judgment, not a measured causal recipient coefficient; adverse and null scenarios test this assumption. [denver-services] [dln-income-method]
u
0.025 model parameter (judgment). Reused accepted national .025oral utility annual judgment, not measured localQALY. [denver-services] [dln-income-method]
T
3 model parameter (judgment). Explicit conditional judgment, not a measured causal recipient coefficient; adverse and null scenarios test this assumption. [denver-services] [dln-income-method]
L
1 model parameter (judgment). Explicit conditional judgment, not a measured causal recipient coefficient; adverse and null scenarios test this assumption. [denver-services] [dln-income-method]
m
0.04 model parameter (judgment). Explicit conditional judgment, not a measured causal recipient coefficient; adverse and null scenarios test this assumption. [denver-services] [dln-income-method]
loss
0.0625 model parameter (judgment). Explicit conditional judgment, not a measured causal recipient coefficient; adverse and null scenarios test this assumption. [denver-services] [dln-income-method]
catchup
0.06 model parameter (judgment). Explicit conditional judgment, not a measured causal recipient coefficient; adverse and null scenarios test this assumption. [denver-services] [dln-income-method]
h
0.0025 model parameter (judgment). Explicit conditional judgment, not a measured causal recipient coefficient; adverse and null scenarios test this assumption. [denver-services] [dln-income-method]
ha
0.0002 model parameter (judgment). Explicit conditional judgment, not a measured causal recipient coefficient; adverse and null scenarios test this assumption. [denver-services] [dln-income-method]
g
0.04 model parameter (judgment). Judged .04national marginal patient benefit/resource burden share in Denver. [denver-services] [dln-income-method]
d
0.03 model parameter (judgment). Explicit conditional judgment, not a measured causal recipient coefficient; adverse and null scenarios test this assumption. [denver-services] [dln-income-method]
baseline
22000 model parameter (judgment). Explicit conditional judgment, not a measured causal recipient coefficient; adverse and null scenarios test this assumption. [denver-services] [dln-income-method]
applicationCash
20 model parameter (judgment). Explicit conditional judgment, not a measured causal recipient coefficient; adverse and null scenarios test this assumption. [denver-services] [dln-income-method]
applicationTime
0.5 model parameter (judgment). Explicit conditional judgment, not a measured causal recipient coefficient; adverse and null scenarios test this assumption. [denver-services] [dln-income-method]
purchaseCash
300 model parameter (judgment). Explicit conditional judgment, not a measured causal recipient coefficient; adverse and null scenarios test this assumption. [denver-services] [dln-income-method]
purchaserTravel
20 model parameter (judgment). Explicit conditional judgment, not a measured causal recipient coefficient; adverse and null scenarios test this assumption. [denver-services] [dln-income-method]
freeAlternativeTravel
20 model parameter (judgment). Explicit conditional judgment, not a measured causal recipient coefficient; adverse and null scenarios test this assumption. [denver-services] [dln-income-method]
newCareTravel
80 model parameter (judgment). Explicit conditional judgment, not a measured causal recipient coefficient; adverse and null scenarios test this assumption. [denver-services] [dln-income-method]
newCareLostPay
30 model parameter (judgment). Explicit conditional judgment, not a measured causal recipient coefficient; adverse and null scenarios test this assumption. [denver-services] [dln-income-method]
maintenanceCash
40 model parameter (judgment). Explicit conditional judgment, not a measured causal recipient coefficient; adverse and null scenarios test this assumption. [denver-services] [dln-income-method]
maintenanceYears
2 model parameter (judgment). Explicit conditional judgment, not a measured causal recipient coefficient; adverse and null scenarios test this assumption. [denver-services] [dln-income-method]
workerShare
0.1 model parameter (judgment). Explicit conditional judgment, not a measured causal recipient coefficient; adverse and null scenarios test this assumption. [denver-services] [dln-income-method]
annualNetPayGain
300 model parameter (judgment). Explicit conditional judgment, not a measured causal recipient coefficient; adverse and null scenarios test this assumption. [denver-services] [dln-income-method]
earningsYears
2 model parameter (judgment). Explicit conditional judgment, not a measured causal recipient coefficient; adverse and null scenarios test this assumption. [denver-services] [dln-income-method]
earningsDelay
1.5 model parameter (judgment). Explicit conditional judgment, not a measured causal recipient coefficient; adverse and null scenarios test this assumption. [denver-services] [dln-income-method]
incomeIndependent
0.25 model parameter (judgment). Explicit conditional judgment, not a measured causal recipient coefficient; adverse and null scenarios test this assumption. [denver-services] [dln-income-method]
volunteerCash
0 model parameter (judgment). Explicit conditional judgment, not a measured causal recipient coefficient; adverse and null scenarios test this assumption. [denver-services] [dln-income-method]
volunteerBaseline
50000 model parameter (judgment). Explicit conditional judgment, not a measured causal recipient coefficient; adverse and null scenarios test this assumption. [denver-services] [dln-income-method]
volunteerTime
1 model parameter (judgment). Explicit conditional judgment, not a measured causal recipient coefficient; adverse and null scenarios test this assumption. [denver-services] [dln-income-method]
completedOpportunity
2000 model parameter (judgment). Explicit conditional judgment, not a measured causal recipient coefficient; adverse and null scenarios test this assumption. [denver-services] [dln-income-method]
unfinishedOpportunity
200 model parameter (judgment). Explicit conditional judgment, not a measured causal recipient coefficient; adverse and null scenarios test this assumption. [denver-services] [dln-income-method]
healthKnown
true model parameter (judgment). Explicit conditional judgment, not a measured causal recipient coefficient; adverse and null scenarios test this assumption. [denver-services] [dln-income-method]
cashKnown
true model parameter (judgment). Explicit conditional judgment, not a measured causal recipient coefficient; adverse and null scenarios test this assumption. [denver-services] [dln-income-method]
earningsKnown
true model parameter (judgment). Explicit conditional judgment, not a measured causal recipient coefficient; adverse and null scenarios test this assumption. [denver-services] [dln-income-method]
fundingKnown
true model parameter (judgment). Explicit conditional judgment, not a measured causal recipient coefficient; adverse and null scenarios test this assumption. [denver-services] [dln-income-method]
grossKnown
true model parameter (judgment). Explicit conditional judgment, not a measured causal recipient coefficient; adverse and null scenarios test this assumption. [denver-services] [dln-income-method]

central: Cost: $10K; Denver health QALYs: 0.00; all-population health QALYs: 0.08. Income-equivalent healthy years: 0.00. Exact accepted national donor framework reused with judged .04 Denver benefit attribution; not a verified local funding offer or national annual-cost estimate.

favorable: Cost: $10K; Denver health QALYs: 0.03; all-population health QALYs: 0.81. Income-equivalent healthy years: 0.00. Exact accepted national donor framework reused with judged .04 Denver benefit attribution; not a verified local funding offer or national annual-cost estimate.

pessimistic: Cost: $10K; Denver health QALYs: 0.00; all-population health QALYs: 0.00. Income-equivalent healthy years: 0.00. Exact accepted national donor framework reused with judged .04 Denver benefit attribution; not a verified local funding offer or national annual-cost estimate.

zeroFunding: Cost: $10K; Denver health QALYs: 0.00; all-population health QALYs: 0.00. Income-equivalent healthy years: 0.00. Exact accepted national donor framework reused with judged .04 Denver benefit attribution; not a verified local funding offer or national annual-cost estimate.

zeroCompletion: Cost: $10K; Denver health QALYs: 0.00; all-population health QALYs: 0.00. Income-equivalent healthy years: 0.00. Exact accepted national donor framework reused with judged .04 Denver benefit attribution; not a verified local funding offer or national annual-cost estimate.

zeroGift: Cost: $0; Denver health QALYs: 0.00; all-population health QALYs: 0.00. Income-equivalent healthy years: 0.00. Exact accepted national donor framework reused with judged .04 Denver benefit attribution; not a verified local funding offer or national annual-cost estimate.

purchasersOnly: Cost: $10K; Denver health QALYs: 0.00; all-population health QALYs: 0.00. Income-equivalent healthy years: 0.00. Exact accepted national donor framework reused with judged .04 Denver benefit attribution; not a verified local funding offer or national annual-cost estimate.

sameTimeFreeCare: Cost: $10K; Denver health QALYs: 0.00; all-population health QALYs: 0.00. Income-equivalent healthy years: 0.00. Exact accepted national donor framework reused with judged .04 Denver benefit attribution; not a verified local funding offer or national annual-cost estimate.

clinicalNull: Cost: $10K; Denver health QALYs: 0.00; all-population health QALYs: 0.00. Income-equivalent healthy years: 0.00. Exact accepted national donor framework reused with judged .04 Denver benefit attribution; not a verified local funding offer or national annual-cost estimate.

noIncomeRecovery: Cost: $10K; Denver health QALYs: 0.00; all-population health QALYs: 0.08. Income-equivalent healthy years: 0.00. Exact accepted national donor framework reused with judged .04 Denver benefit attribution; not a verified local funding offer or national annual-cost estimate.

incomeOverlap: Cost: $10K; Denver health QALYs: 0.00; all-population health QALYs: 0.08. Income-equivalent healthy years: 0.00. Exact accepted national donor framework reused with judged .04 Denver benefit attribution; not a verified local funding offer or national annual-cost estimate.

incomeIndependent: Cost: $10K; Denver health QALYs: 0.00; all-population health QALYs: 0.08. Income-equivalent healthy years: 0.00. Exact accepted national donor framework reused with judged .04 Denver benefit attribution; not a verified local funding offer or national annual-cost estimate.

incomeLoss: Cost: $10K; Denver health QALYs: 0.00; all-population health QALYs: 0.08. Income-equivalent healthy years: 0.00. Exact accepted national donor framework reused with judged .04 Denver benefit attribution; not a verified local funding offer or national annual-cost estimate.

burdens: Cost: $10K; Denver health QALYs: 0.00; all-population health QALYs: 0.08. Income-equivalent healthy years: 0.00. Exact accepted national donor framework reused with judged .04 Denver benefit attribution; not a verified local funding offer or national annual-cost estimate.

healthUnknown: Cost: $10K; Denver health QALYs: unknown; all-population health QALYs: unknown. Exact accepted national donor framework reused with judged .04 Denver benefit attribution; not a verified local funding offer or national annual-cost estimate.

incomeUnknown: Cost: $10K; Denver health QALYs: 0.00; all-population health QALYs: 0.08. Exact accepted national donor framework reused with judged .04 Denver benefit attribution; not a verified local funding offer or national annual-cost estimate.

fundingUnknown: Cost: $10K; Denver health QALYs: unknown; all-population health QALYs: unknown. Exact accepted national donor framework reused with judged .04 Denver benefit attribution; not a verified local funding offer or national annual-cost estimate.

grossUnknown: Cost: $10K; Denver health QALYs: 0.00; all-population health QALYs: 0.08. Income-equivalent healthy years: 0.00. Exact accepted national donor framework reused with judged .04 Denver benefit attribution; not a verified local funding offer or national annual-cost estimate.

fastAlternative: Cost: $10K; Denver health QALYs: 0.00; all-population health QALYs: 0.03. Income-equivalent healthy years: 0.00. Exact accepted national donor framework reused with judged .04 Denver benefit attribution; not a verified local funding offer or national annual-cost estimate.

shortBenefit: Cost: $10K; Denver health QALYs: 0.00; all-population health QALYs: 0.03. Income-equivalent healthy years: 0.00. Exact accepted national donor framework reused with judged .04 Denver benefit attribution; not a verified local funding offer or national annual-cost estimate.

longDelay: Cost: $10K; Denver health QALYs: 0.00; all-population health QALYs: 0.08. Income-equivalent healthy years: 0.00. Exact accepted national donor framework reused with judged .04 Denver benefit attribution; not a verified local funding offer or national annual-cost estimate.

highMortality: Cost: $10K; Denver health QALYs: 0.00; all-population health QALYs: 0.07. Income-equivalent healthy years: 0.00. Exact accepted national donor framework reused with judged .04 Denver benefit attribution; not a verified local funding offer or national annual-cost estimate.

capacityZero: Cost: $10K; Denver health QALYs: 0.00; all-population health QALYs: 0.00. Income-equivalent healthy years: 0.00. Exact accepted national donor framework reused with judged .04 Denver benefit attribution; not a verified local funding offer or national annual-cost estimate.

highOpportunity: Cost: $10K; Denver health QALYs: 0.00; all-population health QALYs: 0.08. Income-equivalent healthy years: 0.00. Exact accepted national donor framework reused with judged .04 Denver benefit attribution; not a verified local funding offer or national annual-cost estimate.

noClinicalOrResourceBurden: Cost: $10K; Denver health QALYs: 0.00; all-population health QALYs: 0.00. Income-equivalent healthy years: 0.00. Exact accepted national donor framework reused with judged .04 Denver benefit attribution; not a verified local funding offer or national annual-cost estimate.

low Denver share: Cost: $10K; Denver health QALYs: 0.00; all-population health QALYs: 0.08. Income-equivalent healthy years: 0.00. Exact accepted national donor framework reused with judged .04 Denver benefit attribution; not a verified local funding offer or national annual-cost estimate.

higher Denver share: Cost: $10K; Denver health QALYs: 0.01; all-population health QALYs: 0.08. Income-equivalent healthy years: 0.00. Exact accepted national donor framework reused with judged .04 Denver benefit attribution; not a verified local funding offer or national annual-cost estimate.

no Denver attribution: Cost: $10K; Denver health QALYs: 0.00; all-population health QALYs: 0.00. Income-equivalent healthy years: 0.00. Exact accepted national donor framework reused with judged .04 Denver benefit attribution; not a verified local funding offer or national annual-cost estimate.

national reused diagnostic: Cost: $10K; Denver health QALYs: 0.08; all-population health QALYs: 0.08. Income-equivalent healthy years: -0.01. Exact accepted national donor framework reused with judged .04 Denver benefit attribution; not a verified local funding offer or national annual-cost estimate.

all paid provider alternative: Cost: $10K; Denver health QALYs: 0.00; all-population health QALYs: 0.00. Income-equivalent healthy years: 0.00. Exact accepted national donor framework reused with judged .04 Denver benefit attribution; not a verified local funding offer or national annual-cost estimate.

no additional oral function: Cost: $10K; Denver health QALYs: 0.00; all-population health QALYs: 0.00. Income-equivalent healthy years: 0.00. Exact accepted national donor framework reused with judged .04 Denver benefit attribution; not a verified local funding offer or national annual-cost estimate.

volunteer net pay incidence: Cost: $10K; Denver health QALYs: 0.00; all-population health QALYs: 0.08. Income-equivalent healthy years: 0.00. Exact accepted national donor framework reused with judged .04 Denver benefit attribution; not a verified local funding offer or national annual-cost estimate.

Counterfactual: No-new-gift includes committed public/private support, existing volunteer slots, insurance exhaustion, medically linked Medicare, other free providers and delayed private care. Otherwise purchasers and equivalent same-time free care have no incremental clinical benefit or matched treatment harm. Additional application burdens remain.

Attribution: Funding response, completion, otherwise purchasing, same-time alternatives and later catchup are separate judged pathways. Common-alive earnings are not survival-created pay. One candidate-equivalent is one representative household; no hidden household-size or patient-repeat multiplier. Denver share is new judgment, not re-estimated national efficacy.

Local completed cohort, restricted capacity, matched state budget and residence unknown. Underlying national clinical/resource judgments reused, not empirical local effects.

Sensitivity

  • favorable: $314K per DALY. Exact accepted national donor framework reused with judged .04 Denver benefit attribution; not a verified local funding offer or national annual-cost estimate.
  • pessimistic: no finite positive estimate. Exact accepted national donor framework reused with judged .04 Denver benefit attribution; not a verified local funding offer or national annual-cost estimate.
  • zeroFunding: no finite positive estimate. Exact accepted national donor framework reused with judged .04 Denver benefit attribution; not a verified local funding offer or national annual-cost estimate.
  • zeroCompletion: no finite positive estimate. Exact accepted national donor framework reused with judged .04 Denver benefit attribution; not a verified local funding offer or national annual-cost estimate.
  • zeroGift: no finite positive estimate. Exact accepted national donor framework reused with judged .04 Denver benefit attribution; not a verified local funding offer or national annual-cost estimate.
  • purchasersOnly: $22.4M per DALY. Exact accepted national donor framework reused with judged .04 Denver benefit attribution; not a verified local funding offer or national annual-cost estimate.
  • sameTimeFreeCare: no finite positive estimate. Exact accepted national donor framework reused with judged .04 Denver benefit attribution; not a verified local funding offer or national annual-cost estimate.
  • clinicalNull: no finite positive estimate. Exact accepted national donor framework reused with judged .04 Denver benefit attribution; not a verified local funding offer or national annual-cost estimate.
  • noIncomeRecovery: $3.4M per DALY. Exact accepted national donor framework reused with judged .04 Denver benefit attribution; not a verified local funding offer or national annual-cost estimate.
  • incomeOverlap: $3.4M per DALY. Exact accepted national donor framework reused with judged .04 Denver benefit attribution; not a verified local funding offer or national annual-cost estimate.
  • incomeIndependent: $3.3M per DALY. Exact accepted national donor framework reused with judged .04 Denver benefit attribution; not a verified local funding offer or national annual-cost estimate.
  • incomeLoss: $3.7M per DALY. Exact accepted national donor framework reused with judged .04 Denver benefit attribution; not a verified local funding offer or national annual-cost estimate.
  • burdens: $5.4M per DALY. Exact accepted national donor framework reused with judged .04 Denver benefit attribution; not a verified local funding offer or national annual-cost estimate.
  • healthUnknown: no finite positive estimate. Exact accepted national donor framework reused with judged .04 Denver benefit attribution; not a verified local funding offer or national annual-cost estimate.
  • incomeUnknown: no finite positive estimate. Exact accepted national donor framework reused with judged .04 Denver benefit attribution; not a verified local funding offer or national annual-cost estimate.
  • fundingUnknown: no finite positive estimate. Exact accepted national donor framework reused with judged .04 Denver benefit attribution; not a verified local funding offer or national annual-cost estimate.
  • grossUnknown: $3.4M per DALY. Exact accepted national donor framework reused with judged .04 Denver benefit attribution; not a verified local funding offer or national annual-cost estimate.
  • fastAlternative: $12.2M per DALY. Exact accepted national donor framework reused with judged .04 Denver benefit attribution; not a verified local funding offer or national annual-cost estimate.
  • shortBenefit: $11.0M per DALY. Exact accepted national donor framework reused with judged .04 Denver benefit attribution; not a verified local funding offer or national annual-cost estimate.
  • longDelay: $3.5M per DALY. Exact accepted national donor framework reused with judged .04 Denver benefit attribution; not a verified local funding offer or national annual-cost estimate.
  • highMortality: $4.0M per DALY. Exact accepted national donor framework reused with judged .04 Denver benefit attribution; not a verified local funding offer or national annual-cost estimate.
  • capacityZero: no finite positive estimate. Exact accepted national donor framework reused with judged .04 Denver benefit attribution; not a verified local funding offer or national annual-cost estimate.
  • highOpportunity: $3.4M per DALY. Exact accepted national donor framework reused with judged .04 Denver benefit attribution; not a verified local funding offer or national annual-cost estimate.
  • noClinicalOrResourceBurden: no finite positive estimate. Exact accepted national donor framework reused with judged .04 Denver benefit attribution; not a verified local funding offer or national annual-cost estimate.
  • low Denver share: $13.5M per DALY. Exact accepted national donor framework reused with judged .04 Denver benefit attribution; not a verified local funding offer or national annual-cost estimate.
  • higher Denver share: $1.7M per DALY. Exact accepted national donor framework reused with judged .04 Denver benefit attribution; not a verified local funding offer or national annual-cost estimate.
  • no Denver attribution: no finite positive estimate. Exact accepted national donor framework reused with judged .04 Denver benefit attribution; not a verified local funding offer or national annual-cost estimate.
  • national reused diagnostic: $135K per DALY. Exact accepted national donor framework reused with judged .04 Denver benefit attribution; not a verified local funding offer or national annual-cost estimate.
  • all paid provider alternative: $22.4M per DALY. Exact accepted national donor framework reused with judged .04 Denver benefit attribution; not a verified local funding offer or national annual-cost estimate.
  • no additional oral function: no finite positive estimate. Exact accepted national donor framework reused with judged .04 Denver benefit attribution; not a verified local funding offer or national annual-cost estimate.
  • volunteer net pay incidence: $3.5M per DALY. Exact accepted national donor framework reused with judged .04 Denver benefit attribution; not a verified local funding offer or national annual-cost estimate.

Unresolved inputs

  • Current unique completed Denver patients
  • Restricted state gift budget and additional volunteer capacity
  • Measured national-to-Denver allocation
  • Local clinical and signed household outcomes

Health and income breakdown

For the modeled $10K: 0.00 health QALYs + 0.00 income-equivalent healthy years in Denver: $3.4M per DALY. Income equivalents are welfare comparisons, not observed QALYs or DALYs.

Method and caveats.

5. Funding and previous grants

Own current Colorado page links actual national DonorPerfect general intake; no transaction. National payee84-6129064 differs from affiliate group84-1043478. Latest full national expenses2,090,255/2,172,269/1,758,119, mean2,006,881, are context only—not central donor10kcost or matched Colorado budget. Do not gross-add affiliate transfers or donated retail care. Current public dental benefits and free clinics remain alternatives. A Colorado-restricted model requires confirmed state allocation and additional volunteers.

Annual expenses

Organization-level spending, including programs, administration and fundraising. The research list averages three comparable, consecutive full fiscal years when available.

  • FY 2025: $2.1M; ein:84-6129064, 12-month period, IRS full functional expenses plus netted direct event expenses. Source
  • FY 2024: $2.2M; ein:84-6129064, 12-month period, IRS full functional expenses plus netted direct event expenses. Source
  • FY 2023: $1.8M; ein:84-6129064, 12-month period, IRS full functional expenses plus netted direct event expenses. Source

6. Sources

  1. FY2025 national recipient Form 990, signed February 26, 2026. Dental Lifeline Network / IRS filing via ProPublica. Published: not stated; retrieved: 2026-10-06.
  2. FY2024 national recipient Form 990 with FY2023 comparison. Dental Lifeline Network / IRS filing via ProPublica. Published: not stated; retrieved: 2026-10-06.
  3. FY2025 affiliated group Form 990, EIN84-1043478. National Foundation of Dentistry for the Handicapped Group / IRS filing via ProPublica. Published: not stated; retrieved: 2026-10-06.
  4. 2024–2025 annual report, pages8–10 visually checked. Dental Lifeline Network. Published: not stated; retrieved: 2026-10-06.
  5. FY2024–2025 funding and support disclosures. Dental Lifeline Network. Published: not stated; retrieved: 2026-10-06.
  6. Current DDS eligibility, benefits exhaustion and waitlists. Dental Lifeline Network. Published: not stated; retrieved: 2026-10-06.
  7. DDS application and patient agreement. Dental Lifeline Network. Published: not stated; retrieved: 2026-10-06.
  8. Official national donation pathway. Dental Lifeline Network. Published: not stated; retrieved: 2026-10-06.
  9. $150,000 grant expected to support 350 patients. Dental Lifeline Network. Published: not stated; retrieved: 2026-10-06.
  10. Current Louisiana coordination grant supporting dentists and labs. Dental Lifeline Network. Published: not stated; retrieved: 2026-10-06.
  11. Current illustrative restoration and partial-denture care. Dental Lifeline Network. Published: not stated; retrieved: 2026-10-06.
  12. Domiciliary denture service randomized trial in 133 older adults. Pearson et al., British Dental Journal. Published: not stated; retrieved: 2026-10-06.
  13. Welfare dental intervention: uncontrolled rehabilitation outcomes. Hyde et al., Journal of Dental Research. Published: not stated; retrieved: 2026-10-06.
  14. Costs and health-related quality of life in relation to caries. Kastenbom et al., BMC Oral Health. Published: not stated; retrieved: 2026-10-06.
  15. Pilot randomized implant-retained denture trial with generic utility measures. Jawad et al., BMC Oral Health. Published: not stated; retrieved: 2026-10-06.
  16. GBD2021 oral-disorders methods: severe tooth-loss weight (indexed primary excerpt reviewed; full PDF returned403). Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. Published: not stated; retrieved: 2026-10-06.
  17. Original national FY2023 Form 990. Dental Lifeline Network / IRS filing via ProPublica. Published: not stated; retrieved: 2026-10-06.
  18. Original affiliated group FY2023 Form 990. NFDH Group / IRS filing via ProPublica. Published: not stated; retrieved: 2026-10-06.
  19. Original affiliated group FY2024 Form 990. NFDH Group / IRS filing via ProPublica. Published: not stated; retrieved: 2026-10-06.
  20. FY2025 national Schedule R: reciprocal reimbursement. DLN / IRS filing via ProPublica. Published: not stated; retrieved: 2026-10-06.
  21. FY2025 affiliate Schedule R: reciprocal reimbursement. NFDH Group / IRS filing via ProPublica. Published: not stated; retrieved: 2026-10-06.
  22. FY2025 Schedule O: staff paid on behalf of group. DLN / IRS filing via ProPublica. Published: not stated; retrieved: 2026-10-06.
  23. FY2025 group Schedule O: salary reimbursement accounting. NFDH Group / IRS filing via ProPublica. Published: not stated; retrieved: 2026-10-06.
  24. Florida DDS October 2024 report: served versus completed definition. Dental Lifeline Network / Florida Dental Association. Published: not stated; retrieved: 2026-10-06.
  25. Indiana DDS report: matched but untreated patients included in served count. Dental Lifeline Network. Published: not stated; retrieved: 2026-10-06.
  26. Historical Massachusetts semiannual report, FY2022–23 context; indexed primary text only, live URL 404. Dental Lifeline Network / Massachusetts Dental Society. Published: not stated; retrieved: 2026-10-06.
  27. 2026 grant: $7,500 supporting care for 30 people. Massachusetts Dental Society Foundation. Published: not stated; retrieved: 2026-10-06.
  28. Maine coordinator contract amendment: funding verified through June 2027. State of Maine procurement. Published: not stated; retrieved: 2026-10-06.
  29. Current DDS FAQ: volunteer constraints, benefit exhaustion and care scope. Dental Lifeline Network. Published: not stated; retrieved: 2026-10-06.
  30. August 2026 Rhode Island update: current annual delivery and official national gift route. Dental Lifeline Network. Published: not stated; retrieved: 2026-10-06.
  31. Current Medicare medically linked dental coverage and coordination requirements. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Published: not stated; retrieved: 2026-10-06.
  32. 2025 original observational study: mandatory cardiac dental screening did not improve adjusted outcomes; indexed primary abstract, full page 403. Krasniqi et al., JACC: Advances. Published: not stated; retrieved: 2026-10-06.
  33. Original caries utility study: targeted abstract/results XML. Kastenbom et al., BMC Oral Health / Europe PMC. Published: not stated; retrieved: 2026-10-06.
  34. Original welfare dental rehabilitation abstract; observational employment association. Hyde et al., Journal of Dental Research / Europe PMC. Published: not stated; retrieved: 2026-10-06.
  35. Health and income cost-effectiveness reference. Coefficient Giving. Published: not stated; retrieved: 2026-10-06.
  36. Current Colorado eligibility and separate metro coordinator. Dental Lifeline Network. Published: not stated; retrieved: 2026-10-06.
  37. Currently linked2021–22state served/waitlist report. Dental Lifeline Network. Published: not stated; retrieved: 2026-10-06.
  38. Fresh original nationalFY2025 full expense. IRS original filing. Published: not stated; retrieved: 2026-10-06.
  39. Fresh original nationalFY2024 full expense. IRS original filing. Published: not stated; retrieved: 2026-10-06.
  40. Fresh original nationalFY2023 full expense. IRS original filing. Published: not stated; retrieved: 2026-10-06.