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The ADA's Q1 2026 data shows dental reimbursement rates rose slightly in February. I know how that headline reads — like good news, finally, after years of owners feeling squeezed from every direction. Read past the first line, though, and the long-term picture is a lot less flattering. Rates still ...
Six percent. Sit with that number for a second. That's how much dental equipment and supply prices climbed in the twelve months ending in February, according to the ADA — against a general inflation rate of roughly 2%. Your input costs are running three times the pace of the broader economy, and nob...
A practice owner told me a few months back that she'd raised her hygienist starting wage twice in eighteen months and still couldn't keep a chair filled. Twice. And she still had a waiting list of patients and an empty operatory on Tuesdays. If you've lived any version of that story, the ADA's lates...