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Latest edition · September 3, 2026
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Across the country, a small group of practice owners is rebuilding the dental visit around the patient's constraints rather than the schedule's. Their methods differ. Their arithmetic does not.
Patients cannot evaluate clinical quality, and they know it. What they evaluate instead is remarkably consistent, and almost none of it appears on a practice’s website.
Not predictions. The unresolved questions we expect to spend next year reporting on — and the reasons we think each one is genuinely open.
The chair has been redesigned roughly every twenty years, always in the name of the patient. Most of the changes were for the dentist, and the profession is better for admitting it.
