“Trends in the financialisation of outpatient care across OECD countries“, as published on 21 May 2025, report that certain outpatient specialities and services are under the focus of financialisation.
Dentistry is on the top of them, say the stats, before ophthalmology, outpatient radiology, and laboratories.
According to the OECD report, “Dental services are particularly attractive for financial investors“.
“The share of practices run by dental service organisations (DSOs) in dental markets across North America and Europe has grown dramatically in recent years, at least doubling in the three years between 2015 and 2018 in Denmark, Norway, Spain and the United Kingdom“.
The OECD report notes that “Few countries have taken steps to regulate specific types of financial actors“.
According to the latest survey conducted among members of FEDCAR, multiple regulatory solutions are however available to dental regulators in Europe to ensure both patient’s safety and professional independence, whatever is the financing of a dental clinic.