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The shifting dental practice landscape
- Source
- Becker's Dental + DSO Review
- Author
- Ariana Portalatin
- Originally at
- beckersdental.com(opens in a new tab)
Summary and scoring by The Bell Brief (Dr. Jennifer Bell) using the Drill-Down Protocol. Not the original publisher.
Why it matters for dental
Dental practice owners and DSOs face rising equipment and supply costs that outpace inflation, coupled with lower confidence in economic performance and fewer dentists entering private practice.
Key points
- 01
Dental equipment and supply costs rose 23% since January 2021, matching the 23% rise in dental office staff hourly earnings while overall inflation reached 27%.
- 02
Roughly half of dentists reported being “somewhat” or “very” confident in the economic performance of their practice in the third quarter, per ADA data.
- 03
About 25% of dentists left insurance networks this year compared with 5.9% who joined networks.
- 04
TUSK Practice Sales reported at least 175 dental practice locations sold to DSOs, private equity groups, and other buyers in the first half of the year.
Who should care
- Owner
- DSO
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