This special issue on practice management represents a labor of love from some of the key thinkers/leaders in the field of dental practice management in the United States.  The topics covered in the articles are current and, in some cases, somewhat controversial.  I hope the readers find the articles both stimulating and insightful

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University of Nebraska Medical Center DigitalCommons@UNMC Journal Articles: College of Dentistry College of Dentistry Fall 10-2011 Introduction to the special issue on practice management David G. Dunning University of Nebraska Medical Center, ddunning@unmc.edu Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.unmc.edu/cod_articles  Part of the Dentistry Commons Recommended Citation Dunning, David G., "Introduction to the special issue on practice management" (2011). Journal Articles: College of Dentistry. 9. https://digitalcommons.unmc.edu/cod_articles/9 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the College of Dentistry at DigitalCommons@UNMC. It has been accepted for inclusion in Journal Articles: College of Dentistry by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@UNMC. For more information, please contact digitalcommons@unmc.edu.  بنم خدا                                                                          OPEN  ACCESS Freely Available Online       Copyright: © 2011 Dunning DG. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.  doi:10.5436/j.dehy.2011.2.00045        Introduction to the Special Issue on Practice Management  David G. Dunning, Ph.D. Guest Editor and Managment Advisor of Dental Hypotheses Email: ddunning@unmc.edu     It has been a pleasure to serve as the lead editor for this special issue of Dental Hy-potheses focusing on practice management issues in the United States.  A few of the “best of the best” in this discipline have served as article contributors and/or re-viewers of articles.  I would first of all like to thank those who served as reviewers of manuscripts along with me.  Most of the reviewers also wrote or co-wrote chapters in a practice management textbook being utilized in a number of dental colleges [1].  Several of the reviewers and contributors have also served in leadership positions for many years in the American Dental Ed-ucation Association Section on Practice Management [2]. The contributions of the-se individuals who served as reviewers have been absolutely essential to the crea-tion of this journal issue:    Dr. David O. Willis, professor who teaches practice management at the University of Louisville School of Den-tistry; author of two dental manage-ment simulation programs    Ms. Amy Kirsch of Amy Kirsch & As-sociates, a dental hygienist and dental practice management consultant from Colorado Editorial [Downloaded free from http://www.dentalhypotheses.com on Tuesday, February 10, 2015, IP: 137.197.85.100]  ||  Click here to download free Android applicatiojournalDunning DG                                                                                                 Introduction to the special issue on practice management                                         200    Vol 2, No 4, 2011 http://www.dentalhypotheses.com      Dental  Hypotheses  Dr. Duane Schmidt, a retired pediatric dentist and former owner of a large pediatric dental practice in Iowa  Dr. Brian Lange, professor who teaches behavioral science and practice man-agement at the University of Nebraska Medical Center and co-editor of a lead-ing textbook on practice management   Dr. C. Steven Wolff, formerly in pri-vate practice and currently owner of EMA Dental Practice Sales, a dental brokerage firm in metro Kansas City.  The articles in this special issue focus on topics of vital current interest in practice management.  Dr. Wolff’s article focuses on the impact of recent economic trends on dental practice sales and associateships.  Dr. Madden’s article re-views and provides perspective on the controversial issue of “mid-level” patient care delivery models emerging in the U.S.  Dr. Lange et al. provide a much needed update regarding teaching practice man-agement in dental schools and ideas for improving said instruction. Dr. Willis’ ar-ticle raises alarming concerns about whether dental practice may follow in the footsteps of pharmacy, moving potentially toward what Dr. Willis terms the “Walmartization” of dentistry.  Dr. Schmidt outlines in his article a practical perspective of risk management as a guid-ing force for practice management.   Last-ly, Dr. Dunning et al. present preliminary data about dental hygienists’ views of dental staff meetings in private practice.    Together, these articles provide perspec-tive on a number of important issues in practice management today.  Conflicts of interests The author declares that he has no com-peting interest.   He is a co-editor of the textbook cited in the references. The au-thor served as a co-author in two of the ar-ticles to be published in this special issue, though outside reviewers critiqued the ar-ticles He also has editorial involvement with Dental Hypotheses.  References 1. Dunning DG, Lange BM.  Dental Practice Transition:  A Practical Guide to Manage-ment.  Ames, Iowa: Wiley-Blackwell; 2008: v-vi.  2. American Dental Education Association (ADEA). Practice Management [Accessed September 12, 2011]. 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