The ADA News (6/5, Carey) reported that the ADA Health Policy Institute’s latest round of polling on how COVID-19 is affecting dental practices shows “a robust, sustained rebound” for dental offices. The poll indicates that 90 percent of dental practices had reopened the week of June 1, up from 65 percent in mid-May and 3 percent in early April. In addition, the poll found patient volume had reached over 50 percent of pre-COVID-19 levels.
HPI will continue to track data every two weeks in every state to provide a glimpse into how the pandemic is unfolding. Dentists who wish to view complete results, including results broken down by practice size, dental service organization status and at the state level, and results from all waves of this survey, including a special wave on dentists in public health settings, can do so at ADA.org/HPI.