Sikka Software, a healthcare applications provider, has collected data from 12,200 dental practices and found a number of trends that could indicate a possible slip in the economy.
• Dental patients are increasingly cancelling follow-up appointments.
• Dental practices have planned to provide more care at hygiene appointments than what patients actually allow to be done.
• Dental practices are experiencing and increasing struggle to collect payment from patients.
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