Dental care picks up; still at 27% of pre-pandemic volume

As dental treatment volume increased for the week ending May 10, overall national treatment volume is still at 27 percent of the pre-COVID-19 weekly average, according to a May 19 news release from P&R Dental Strategies and DentalMarketIQ.

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Most treatments were urgent or emergency care. For the week ending May 10, treatment that was definitely or highly likely to be urgent reached almost 80 percent of pre-pandemic average volume. Nonessential treatments and treatments classified as “unlikely urgent” saw the first material volume increases, reaching more than 20 percent of previous levels.

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