Newer and younger dentists are waiting longer to buy or build their own practice after graduating from dental school, according to a report from the American Dental Association’s Health Policy Institute. Among dentists who graduated from dental school between 1996 and 2000, 70% were practice owners five to nine years after graduation. Just 21% of dentists who are part of the 2016 to 2020 graduation cohort were practice owners five to nine years post-graduation. Once reaching the middle stage of their careers, over 80% of dentists are practice owners, regardless of when they graduated.
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Source: https://www.beckersdental.com/benchmarking/young-dentists-are-delaying-practice-ownership-report