Omnistar Beacon

Welcome and Happy New Year! The big news in dentistry is the announcement of Aspen Dental-branded Offices opening in 2 Walgreens located in Florida. This collaboration, brings together Walgreens, a leader in understanding the intersection of retail and health care, and Aspen Dental, a brand that has made dental care affordable and accessible to millions of patients for more than 20 years.” The announcement of the Aspen/Walgreens partnership will serve as an example for the experts to repeat the rhetoric that the solo dental practitioner is a lone wolf and dying breed and that the dentistry of the future will be delivered through a DSO corporate structure with an employee dentist, rather than an owner dentist. It has already been predicted that since physician practices have followed this trend, dentistry will too. I wish to use this podcast episode as an opportunity to dig little deeper and maybe go down some rabbit holes to say, like Mark Twain said, “The news of my death has been greatly exaggerated!” I