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ADA News (Newspaper) - February 19, 1979, Chicago, Illinois BULLETIN Best Dentists book soliciting funds Dentists in many states are re mail solicitations for an The Best Dentists in published by Reveal Publications in Beverly The publisher would not re spond to a telephone inquiry from the ADA about the nature of the stating it would re spond only to written A written response is being pur American Dental Association News February 1979 Green light for national dental placement system Computers find practice opportunities nationwide computer placement network for oper ated totally in the private is ready to begin An announcement by the Kel logg Foundation of Battle that it will contribute a half million dol lars toward the systems startup costs signals a green light for the placement Dental fee hikes trailed inflation rate in 1978 of inflation for 1978 are now and dentistry measured up well relative to the overall Dental fees rose an average from Dec 1977 to Dec according to the US Bureau of Labor The econ omy as a whole inflated Prices overall are divided into two and services reporting by the The ser vices of which dental fees are a rose Inflation in health care as a whole cooled a bit in The medical care index rose and physicians fees rose The average cost of a semiprivate hospital although slowed from previous reporting still loomed at above the average charges at yearend The Consumer Price Index figures for the close of based on an equalized standing of 100 in were Dental services Physician services Hospital room Medical care Food Commodities Services All items The ADA committed to the placement network over a threeyear contingent upon finding other monies to fulfill the remainder of the startup In a letter to ADA President Joseph the Kellogg Founda tion has offered to provide those remain ing totalling also over the threeyear startup After the threeyear the placement system is to be through user Officially titled The National Health Professions Placement the sys tem is analogous to a computer dating But the in this are dentists and practice locations or em Dental auxiliary personnel can also be matched to employment oppor with the It is anticipated that the system will eventually be ex to include other categories of health The network promises not only to be a convenience to members of the profes but also offers the potential of eas ing some geographic maldistribution of dental Increasingly it is believed that the number of dentists in the United States is in balance with the overall but that some distribution problems re The computer placement network will help newly graduated as well as those who are to iden shortage and oversupply Project director David Continued on Page Eleven Using the network Dentists wanting more information about using the new National Health Professions Placement Network can contact David University of Minnesota School of Minneapolis Telephone 612 MILLIONS 60 50 40 30 20 10 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 Estimated 60 million Americans now covered by dental plans than 60 million than one in four covered by prepaid den tal care The estimate is based on a projection of statistics newly compiled by the ADA Council on Dental Care The compilation shows that at the end of approximately million Americans had dental The largest 59 of those were beneficiaries of prepay ment plans written by commercial insur Another 26 were insured through dental service Delta Dental About 10 were covered under Blue Shield The remaining 5 were miscellaneous independent The million beneficiaries at the end of 1977 represented a million in crease over the yearend 1976 A projection of that rate of increase puts the total above 60 million ADA officials in the early and mid 1970s were predicting that the 60 million figure would be reached by the end of the It appears that that mark has been surpassed a year ahead of the pre The million beneficiaries for 1977 also represents a 12fold increase for the preceding tenyear Only mil lion Americans had dental coverage in The ADAs compilation is based on in formation supplied by representatives of the The Health Insurance Asso of America canvassed its member companies and found that beneficiaries number Delta Dental Plans similarly counted 14 million be The Blue Shield associations reported million The HEW Social Security Ad ministration estimated 3 million covered by independent plans as of yearend 1976 this latter figure may be adjusted slightly when the 1977 estimate is re The number of Americans now covered by general health insurance is about 177 or about eight out of That was the total at the end of the latest year for which data are avail Beneficiary growth has begun to level off in recent Of the 177 mil 164 million were under age Trends Dentists public it has ever been Department store three chains view its future Washington Dental care for the elderly proposed in Medicare amendments Dentistry excluded from draft of HEW national health plan Opinion Listening as a part of dental public relations Are specialists spoiling education in dental schools

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