Non-DSO affiliated dental practices are more skeptical of the economic recovery of the dental industry and of the U.S. economy, according to a recent poll by the American Dental Association's Health Policy Institute.
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Dentists' confidence in the economic recovery of the U.S. and dental practices dropped in May, according to a monthly poll by the American Dental Association's Health Policy Institute.