The survey asked the respondents to look ahead six months for each question. The responses consisted of 1,692 practice owners and 191 non-owners. The response options included very confident, somewhat confident, neither confident nor skeptical, somewhat skeptical, and very skeptical.
Both owners and non-owners reported feeling very confident to somewhat confident more often than somewhat skeptical to very skeptical regarding the economic recovery of their own practices and the dental care sector in general.
Of the respondents surveyed, 67.6 percent of owners and 73.3 percent of non-owners felt very confident to somewhat confident about the economic recovery of their own practices.
Regarding the economic recovery of the dental care sector in general, 63.8 percent of owners and 67.5 percent of non-owners felt very confident to somewhat confident.
