Transforming the Cottage Industry

Book excerpt: Dental Support Organizations have grown in popularity and power because of the needs expressed by the community of dentists here in the United States and globally. Transforming the Cottage Industry will outline this growing need for change in the dental community, the adaptation of the DSO model to meet the changing times and the concerns of the solo practice model. Also, it will address the misconceptions that all new models can foster. This book will also endeavor to look at the more human and sociological side of why we are at this crossroads in the first place, since change, no matter how timely or important, is always resisted. This book will address what makes change difficult and many times threatening to an old paradigm. We will look at the invaluable opportunity for those willing to adapt and shift.