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By line DENTAL TRIBUNE | March 2010 Industry News 29A Visit us at the Hinman Show Booth #1531 AD research and development projects in dental bone grafting today involve bone morphogenic protein [BMP] products. BMPs have the potential to transform the bone grafting mar- ket and surpass all other products on the market including synthetic substitutes, allografts and deminer- alized bone matrices,” notes Anne Anscomb, the report’s author. “With the announcement in March that the FDA approved Medtronic’s InFuse Bone Graft for certain oral maxillofacial and dental regenerative bone grafting procedures, the future of BMP and increased use of grafts and implants looks very promising.” Implant-Based Dental Reconstruc- tion includes revenue forecasts for global market. Advanced bone grafting and regeneration techniques have radi- cally expanded the possibilities for implant-based restorative dentistry. World sales of dental bone grafts reached $130 million in 2006, up 12 percent over 2005. The report proj- ects the use of bone grafts will more than double by 2012 with revenues reaching $266 million. Grafting techniques are making it possible to expand the candidate pool for implants to include a sizable population of edentulous patients who were poor candidates for den- tal implantation due to severe bone resorption. “The most closely watched Global sales of dental implant sys- tems — fast becoming the preferred restoration for replacement of miss- ing or extracted teeth or as supports for dentures, crowns and bridges — are expected to maintain double- digit growth over the next five years, soaring to more than $4.5 billion, according to “Implant-Based Dental Reconstruction: The Worldwide Den- tal Implant and Bone Graft Market,” second Edition, a new study released from Kalorama Information. Sales of dental implants and abut- ments rose more than 15 percent in 2006 alone, reaching nearly $2 bil- lion, led by Europe, where the popu- larity of implants saw sales peaking at $760 million, or 42 percent of the each segment through 2016, global market share for four geographic regions, more than 35 tables and figures with detailed market data, reviews of new products and com- puter-aided dentistry and reimburse- ment trends. It can be purchased directly from Kalorama Information by visiting www.kaloramainformation.com/ Implant-Based-Dental-1399457. It is also available at Market- Research.com. DT CK Dental Industries Tel.: (800) 675-2537 Fax: (800) 634-1788 www.ckdental.net World dental implant and bone graft market to top $4.5b by 2012 If current trends continue, get- ting an appointment with a dentist might become more challenging in coming years. A recent survey by the independent research firm The Long Group, and sponsored by the not-for- profit Delta Dental Plans Associa- tion, found that the dentist population could begin to contract as early as 2012. Researchers looked at current dentist retirement rates and at sur- vey responses from dentists who expressed a desire to make a career change within the next five to 10 years and compared those numbers with the current dental school gradu- ation rate. Projecting these trends into the future, the study found that the 2009 dentist population of approximately 179,600 will increase through 2011 but retirement and career changes could outpace dentist school gradua- tion beginning in 2012. By 2019, the dentist population could be smaller by nearly 7,000, assuming consistent dental school graduates of 4,500 annually. “As more people acquire dental coverage through an employer, an individual policy or through some form of government-assisted pro- gram, it is crucial that dentists are available to actually see and treat them,” said Kim E. Volk, president and CEO of Delta Dental Plans Asso- ciation. “With more than 132,000 dentists participating in our network, we’re interested in helping affect, not just monitoring, these trends,” said Volk. Groups such as Delta Dental and others are having success attracting dentists to underserved areas and are providing prospective dentists with some hope that they won’t leave school with insurmountable debt. According to the American Dental Education Association, graduates of dental school enter the workforce with an average of $170,000 of debt. Increasingly, a dentist who is willing to practice in a federally designated Dentist population could contract by 2012 g DT page 30A Recent survey projects that retirement and career changes could outpace the number of dental graduates

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