While in the Big Apple for the Greater New York Dental Meeting, I sat down with Jay Millikan, senior vice president of sales for Fluent, and recorded a series of podcasts for DrBicuspid.com. The podcasts delve into various data collected by Fluent regarding trends in the dental industry as we transition to 2026.
The first of the three data-driven podcasts focused on dental insurance and whether dentists were really dropping it or not. You can listen to that podcast here.
Below is the second podcast in which Millikan reveals what the numbers are saying about the number of dental procedures performed by general practitioners versus specialists.
Below are the three charts referenced by Millikan in the podcast.
Figure 1: U.S. patient specialty distribution of overall GPs versus all other dental specialties.
Jay Millikan/Fluent.
Figure 2: U.S. patient specialty distribution (by procedure category) of GPs vs. all other specialties with regard to oral surgery, implants, orthodontics, and all other specialties.
Jay Millikan/Fluent.
Figure 3: U.S. patient specialty distribution (by procedure category) of GPs vs. all other specialties with regard to diagnostic & preventive, restorative, endodontics, and periodontics, an all other specialties.
Jay Millikan/Fluent.
