<![CDATA[Dental and oral health problems remain highly prevalent in Indonesia, yet the utilization of dental health services among affected populations stays considerably low, indicating a persistent gap in access. This study aims to identify and synthesize empirical evidence on how socioeconomic factors influence access to dental health services in Indonesia. A qualitative library research approach was employed through a systematic literature review, drawing on fifteen national journal articles published between 2020 and 2026, retrieved from Garuda, Google Scholar, and ResearchGate. The synthesis reveals that socioeconomic factors operate across multiple layers, including household income, education, and oral health literacy at the individual level, disparities in dental workforce and facility distribution at the regional level, and limited effectiveness of health insurance in guaranteeing substantive access. The findings further indicate that inadequate dental health access generates considerable macroeconomic losses through medical costs and reduced labor productivity, a dimension rarely addressed in prior studies. These results imply that improving dental health access in Indonesia requires policies that simultaneously target household level economic constraints and structural inequalities in health service provision, positioning the issue within a broader development economics framework rather than treating it solely as a public health concern.]]>
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