Gesko David S, Bailit Howard L
Dr. Gesko is Dental Director and Senior Vice President, HealthPartners, South Bloomington, MN; and Dr. Bailit is Professor Emeritus, Department of Community Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Connecticut.
J Dent Educ. 2017 Aug;81(8):eS120-eS125. doi: 10.21815/JDE.017.018.
This study compared the number of patients treated per year by general dentists and dental hygienists in solo practice and by those employed by a large group practice. Information on the annual number of patient visits to solo general dental practitioners comes from the 2013 American Dental Association (ADA) Survey of Dental Practice. Patient visits were divided by 2.5 to estimate the number of patients treated annually. The data on group practices come from HealthPartners (HP) of Minnesota, a large not-for-profit medical and dental Health Maintenance Organization that accepts insurance contracts based on global budgets and is financially at risk. In 2013, solo general dentists averaged 1,350 patients, while the average HP general dentist treated 2,052 patients. HP general dentists thus treated over 700 more patients annually than did solo practitioners. This large difference has major implications for the future of the dental delivery system and dental education. This article was written as part of the project "Advancing Dental Education in the 21 Century."
本研究比较了个体执业的普通牙医和口腔保健员以及大型团体执业机构雇佣的牙医每年治疗的患者数量。个体普通牙科从业者每年患者就诊次数的信息来自2013年美国牙科协会（ADA）的牙科实践调查。就诊次数除以2.5以估算每年治疗的患者数量。团体执业的数据来自明尼苏达州的健康伙伴（HP），这是一家大型非营利性医疗和牙科健康维护组织，接受基于全球预算的保险合同且面临财务风险。2013年，个体普通牙医平均治疗1350名患者，而HP的普通牙医平均治疗2052名患者。因此，HP的普通牙医每年比个体执业者多治疗700多名患者。这一巨大差异对牙科服务体系和牙科教育的未来具有重大影响。本文是“21世纪推进牙科教育”项目的一部分。
