Fewer dental practice owners —is that good or bad?

At this point in history, less than 50% of physicians own their own private practice. Most work as employee doctors and focus on patient care rather than the business side of medicine. In dentistry, however, 80% of dentists in private practice are owners, but the trend is toward a slow decline in the numbers of dentist-owners (Figure). At this pace, by 2090, dentistry will also have less than 50% dentist-owners. A view of the implications of this decline in practice ownership and the probable future for dentistry was offered.

Source: Dental Abstracts - March 1, 2018 Category: Dentistry Tags: The Big Picture Source Type: research