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    "edition": "2026.1",
    "generated_at": "2026-11-03T08:49:48.462Z",
    "license": "CC-BY-4.0",
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    "license_statement": "Real Dental Costs datasets (API, CSV, Zenodo DOIs): CC BY 4.0, commercial reuse allowed with attribution; third-party figures keep their source terms (listed in third_party_terms); site prose and design © Real Dental Costs, quotation with attribution welcome.",
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    "attribution": "Real Dental Costs — https://realdentalcosts.com",
    "doi": "https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20531728",
    "methodology": "https://realdentalcosts.com/en/methodology/",
    "docs": "https://realdentalcosts.com/en/api/",
    "disclaimer": "Independent pricing and market research. NOT medical, dental or insurance advice."
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  "basis_note": "No collected per-state price exists. The national figure is scaled by the state's Restorative Cost Index (for the single implant, the index base itself: implant = Real Dental Costs' editorial estimate, edition 2026.1 (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20531728): not collected prices; state ranking validated against ASQ360 (Spearman 0.945), price levels not verified (requalified 2026-10-25, see /en/data-corrections/)). Defensible only inside the restorative regime (procedures mutually correlated 0.93-0.96). Treat as an estimate.",
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    "confidence_note": "No per-state source exists for this procedure; state values are modelled from the national range. Defensible inside the restorative regime only."
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