by Jonathan Fine | Jan 2, 2019 | Business growth, Treatment modalities
Last week’s Sunday Times picked up on a report by the Royal College of Surgeons about a potential gamechanger in the dental patient journey: piezo electric drills. They’re “less painful, more precise, more effective and much quieter” and are already being used by a...
by Jonathan Fine | Dec 12, 2018 | Business growth, Treatment modalities
There are 11m people living with hearing loss in the UK and that’s going to rise to 15.6m by 2035. I bet you can guess what I’m going to say next. Two words: growth market. And seven more: that dental practices are primed to service. Why is this a growth market? On...
by Jonathan Fine | Dec 12, 2018 | Business growth, Ireland, Treatment modalities
The HSE estimates that 17% of the population has some sort of hearing loss, which equates to more than 800,000 people. But that number is going to rise dramatically because of two phenomena: Ireland’s population has been getting steadily older since the 1980s. In the...
by Zac Fine | Dec 5, 2018 | Business growth, Dental practice software, IT, Movers and shakers, Orthodontics
One of the fastest growth markets in dentistry is orthodontics, and for good reason: an apparently insatiable demand among adults for straight teeth on top of steady demand among children and teens. Adults have to go private, there’s no other option in England and...
by Zac Fine | Aug 8, 2018 | Compliance, Cosmetic dentistry, Orthodontics, Treatment modalities
The dental sector is in rude health but the ortho category is probably rudest of all, with its global market forecast to see a compound annual growth rate of 8.2% between 2017 and 2023 (Allied Market Research). It’s easy for GDPs to enter this market. You can take the...
