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Recent Harris Poll Says Patient Demand For Dentistry In The Future Will Drop.



Recently one dental advocacy group, Oral Health America, commissioned the Harris organization to conduct a survey indicating the future spending of Americans for dental services. Not surprisingly, the survey indicated that a sizeable segment (about 35%) of those surveyed said that they were planning to reduce their spending on dental…

In A Professional Service Business, Such As A Dental Practice, In The American Healthcare Industry, It’s Either Feast Or Famine.

This claim means that all professional service businesses in the healthcare industry are hypersensitive to the annual industry rate of growth.

In other words, small changes in the rate of industry growth mean big changes in the revenues flowing into all organizations depending on the organization’s size and it’s market…

Virtually unknown among the occupational community of dentists, the recent events were literally the most important events in the private practice of dentistry since Chapin A. Harris, MD, DDS started the profession back in the 1840s.

These dramatic events changed dental practice forever. Yet, most dentists and their business handlers are not fully prepared to cope with the threats and to capitalize on the opportunities.

Interestingly, the dramatic events of 2009 were predicted by…

This is the time of the year when dental practices will be reviewing the past year’s performance. If they are not satisfied with the patient flow–probably many of them given a sluggish economy where up to one-third of dental patients say they will cut back on dental spending– then the progressive dental practices will be looking for ways to reverse the predicament.

Here’s some background.

The planned federal deregulation of the industry (1972-1978) was…