...Kenneth C. Fraundorf Organized dentistry spent nearly a century laboring to obtain control over entry into the profession. The first attempt, the American Society of Dental Surgeons, failed because the issue of using amalgam so split the Society that collective action became impossible. The second...

... adjustments in both fee levels and waiting time. Competitive markets require unequal fee levels among providers in the same community and differing provider-to-population ratios across communities. The evidence from dentistry presented supports this expanded theory. Fees and waiting time are inversely related...

.... The analysis concludes with a discussion of policy implications for competition in dentistry and a suggestion that practice act changes are both a cause and an effect of the general metamorphosis observed in the dental marketplace. The potential indirect effects of national health insurance and altered...

... be pursued, as should experiments with different institutional arrangements for what they may reveal about the relationship between present prices and costs of production. Notes 1. Alex R. Maurizi, “Rates of Return to Dentistry and the Decision to Enter Dental School,” Journal of Human...

...) in the population. Oral cancer is a vastly more serious affliction that attacks perhaps 24,000 persons: annually, but the treatment of the malady, as distinct from its detection, is beyond the scope of dentistry.4 Dentistry Kudrle?? Foreign Dental Coverage 655 also treats...

... of the monopoly and competitive models is to measure economic profitdental industry. inth,e Persistent positive economic profit would rule out competition but not monopoly. This has proven to be extremely difficult in industry in general and certainly in dentistry. As a Kushman...

... of Self-Employed Professionals: The Case of Dentists ,”Southern Economic Journal 45 (January 1979): 892902. 8. B. L. Boulier, “Two Essays in the Economics of Dentistry: A Production Function for Dental Services and an Examination of the Effects of Licen- sure,” unpublished doctoral...

... and Law Nurit Guttman is on the faculty of the Department of Communication, Tel-Aviv University, Israel, and is also on the faculty of the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey–Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. She is the author of Public Health...

... the dubious distinction awarded by Friedman and Kuznets as the alternative profession from which inferences could be drawn about physicians’ profits- dentistry has its place in the sun. Maurizi7 andFelstein* have described the relationship between limita- tions on entry into the dental...

... the field of den- tistry, Dr. Ashcraft and Professor Jensen-the field of nursing, and Dr. Estes-community and family medicine. Dentistry and nursing have had no previous representation on our editorial board. The following biographical sketches will give our readers some indica- tion...

... -68. Goldberg , Lawrence G. , and Warren Greenberg. 1981 . The Determinants of HMO Enrollment and Growth. Health Services Research (Winter) : 421 -38. Greenberg , Warren 1982 . Provider Influenced Insurance Plans and Their Impact on Competition: Lessons from Dentistry. In A New...

... Contributors Douglas A. Conrad (M.B.A., Ph.D.) is Assistant Professor in the Departments of Community Dentistry and Health Services of the University of Washington at Seattle, WA. He received his Ph.D. in economics and finance from the Graduate School of Business...

... Trade Com­ mission’s activities concerning dentistry, addresses a core issue in the current controversy concerning the competitive structure of the dental market: that is, whether state practice acts designed to protect the con­ sumer have, by enforcement, been used as the buttresses...

..., RN, University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing; Andrew W. Nichols, MD, University of Arizona College of Medicine; Frederick M. Perkins, DDS, University of Iowa College of Dentistry; Robert J. Rubin, MD, Tufts University School of Medicine; and Edgar E. Smith, Ph.D., University...

... along with it. Consider, for example, the South Carolina Board of Dentistry’s rules prohibiting dental hygienists from selling their services directly to the pub- lic. The FTC has recently alleged that the Board of Dentistry “restrained competition in the provision of preventive dental care...

... Amherst College (1971) and his M.D. from the University of Rochester (1976). He completed his inter- nal medicine residency in 1979 and a fellowship in medical/psychiatric liaison in 1981, both from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. Cur...

..., administrator of Memorial Hospital in Lufkin, TX. The University of Washington Department of Community Dentistry has received a $49,000 grant from the -National Center for Health Services Research for research on “Competition as a Means to Contain Dental Care Costs.” Principal investigator...

... of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey In an effort to further widen the perspectives and voices about important issues, we are asking thoughtful Europeans to write short essays from their perspectives about enduring issues for both Americans and Euro- peans. These may enable readers to find...

.... T. McIver, R. G. Rozier, W. F. Vann Jr., and R. D. Venezie. 1999 . Children's Utilization of Dental Care in the North Carolina Medicaid Program. Pediatric Dentistry 21 : 97 -103. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). 2005. Preventing Dental Caries. www.cdc.gov/nccdphp...

.... The evi- dence is based on political conflicts over competition policy in medicine, dentistry, and optometry within a single state. As a result, the analysis is limited; but we believe the historical record reveals important patterns which provide insight into any forthcoming battles over...