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The latest Survey and Economic Research on Dentistry reports published by the ADA are listed below. Reports are generally available either in a bound, hard copy or downloadable, electronic format. To see a preview of these and other reports, or to place an order, visit the ADA Catalog.
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Rural Dentistry: Rural Patients, Travel Burdens & Rural Oral Public Health (December 2008)
The economists who authored this new Health Policy Resources Center publication worked with data from various sources to address the geographic component of access by comparing the travel burdens and experiences faced by rural and non-rural populations. Aggregate results are presented for dental practices located in: large (population greater than 250,000) economically disadvantaged urban areas; small (population less than 250,000) economically disadvantaged urban areas; rural areas; and suburban and not economically disadvantaged areas. Among the issues considered are: the adequacy of the number of dentists in rural areas; whether dentists should be subsidized to locate in rural areas; travel burdens of rural patients visiting the dentist; and “bundling” activities of rural patients when making a dental visit.
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2007 Survey of Current Issues in Dentistry – Physical Well-Being and Substance Abuse (November 2008)
The third of four reports from the 2007 Survey of Current Issues in Dentistry is now available. According to the Physical Well-Being and Substance Abuse report, when dentists were asked whether they regularly (i.e., once a week or more) experienced pain in any area of the body, 57.1% responded yes. Dentists who reported regularly experiencing pain most commonly cited the lower back (58.4%) or neck (52.2%) as the areas affected. Regarding substance abuse, almost half of dentists ask patients about their alcohol use (46.0%) or use of illegal substances (47.6%). Thirty-nine percent of dentists reported treating at least one patient in the last year with evidence of “meth mouth.”
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2007 Survey of Current Issues in Dentistry – Selected Results (November 2008)
The last of four reports from the 2007 Survey of Current Issues in Dentistry is now available. The Selected Results report covers five important topics: new technology and new equipment, claims submission, emergency preparedness, Medicaid patients, and offshore dental laboratories.
According to this report, just over three-fifths of dentists (60.8%) submit dental claims electronically. When asked to rate the extent of their knowledge about topics relating to emergency preparedness, dentists were more likely to feel very knowledgeable about emergency preparedness (25.8%) than about bioterrorism (5.6%) or pandemics (5.7%). Also, just over one-quarter of responding dentists (26.7%) treat Medicaid-insured patients.
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2007 Survey of Legal Provisions for Delegating Intraoral Functions to Dental Assistants and Dental Hygienists (November 2008)
The 2007 Survey of Legal Provisions for Delegating Intraoral Functions to Dental Assistants and Dental Hygienists report is now available from the Survey Center. This report, published every three years, compiles information from state boards of dentistry in the U.S., Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands, detailing whether or not dental assistants and dental hygienists are legally permitted to perform specific functions in those jurisdictions. Over 40 functions for dental assistants and dental hygienists are covered in this publication.
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2008 ADA Dental Workforce Model: 2006-2030 (November 2008)
The 2008 ADA Dental Workforce Model: 2006-2030 has recently been released by the ADA Health Policy Resources Center.
The Dental Workforce Model performs long-term projection of the U.S. dental workforce using statistical transition models for retirements, occupation change, location choice, specialty education and death. The report provides national projections of the number of dentists (professionally active dentists and active private practitioners), applicants to dental school, first-year dental school enrollments and dental school graduates up to the year 2030.
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2007 Survey of Current Issues in Dentistry – Employee Termination and Embezzlement (October 2008)
The second of four reports from the 2007 Survey of Current Issues in Dentistry, this volume covers two important topics: employee termination and embezzlement. When dentists were asked whether, to their knowledge, their primary practice had ever been embezzled by an employee, 17.5% said yes. Among those, nearly three-quarters (73.2%) were able to estimate the total dollar value of the losses. When asked whether they had ever terminated an employee, about four in five dentists (79.1%) said yes.
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2006 Survey of Dental Practice – Prosthodontists in Private Practice (September 2008)
For all owner prosthodontists, the average practice expenses as a percentage of gross billings was 62.1% in 2005, according to this report. The publication also shows that gross billings per practice hour for all solo prosthodontists increased 58.3% from 1998 to 2005, from $238.60 in 1998 to $377.60 in 2005.
In addition to practice expenses and gross billings information, this report includes information on net income, number of hours worked, time spent in the dental practice, gender and age distribution of patients, number of patient visits, patients’ insurance coverage, and employment of dental practice personnel for prosthodontists. Multiple-year trend charts are included for many of these statistics.
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