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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some of it goes back to the early 90s (?) when the AMA signed up to participate in HMOs while the ADA did not. Ever since, dentistry has been a major cash business with significant insurance involvement, but a whole lot of people don't carry dental insurance at all.

Everyone's got teeth, old young male female, and when they need to be emergently cared for, it's not optional. Dentists frequently do better than even MD specialists. [/quote]

In other words, dentistry  is an illegal anticompetitive trust.[/quote]

I think at the time the ADA just recognized that it was going to be a bad deal for practitioners.

Modern conglomerate managed care certainly hasn't helped the bottom line of medical practitioners in terms of either compensation or lifestyle or even actual ability to deliver quality care, because they're no longer in charge of the terms of their own practice.

Dentists and oral surgeons don't have to deal with any of that oversight. 
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