Association seeks responses to annual Survey of Dental Practice

The ADA Survey Center is conducting the House of Delegates-mandated 2010 Survey of Dental Practice of dentists in private practice.

The annual survey asks specialists and general practitioners to provide information about private dental practice, including income and expenses, patient visits and dentists’ average work hours.

The Association is sending the survey to a sample of U.S. specialists and general practitioners, both members and nonmembers. Those who receive a copy in the mail are asked to help the dental profession by completing and returning the enclosed questionnaire within three weeks. Survey results support the ADA’s advocacy efforts on behalf of dentistry.

The ADA will publish survey information in a series of reports, which will provide new dentists with data to help in establishing their practices and give benchmarks for established dentists.

The 2010 editions will include reports dealing exclusively with each of six different specialties as well as three reports providing data on general practitioners and specialists as a group. The ADA will post all resulting reports鈥攆ree to ADA members鈥攆or download at www.ada.org/goto/freereports.

Survey of Dental Practice results from previous years as well as results from a number of other popular surveys are currently available at this site.