title: The future of dental practice.
abstract: This paper is intended to describe several broad areas of change that will affect dental practice as we enter the early portion of the 21st century. The four major topic areas are: The changing status of American and world society, the demographic changes in the patient and provider communities, technology, and the development of evidenced-based dental practice. The article presents a digest of other issues that are encompassed in these four major topic areas that will affect dental practice in the future.
authors.forename: S Timothy
authors.initials: ST
authors.lastname: Rose
mesh_terms: D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000639:trends; D003710:Demography; D003752:Dental Health Services / Q000639:trends; D003813:Dentistry / Q000639:trends*; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine / Q000639:trends; D005544:Forecasting; D014943:Global Health; D019456:Health Transition; D006801:Humans; D020380:Needs Assessment / Q000639:trends; D013674:Technology, Dental / Q000639:trends; D014481:United States