Dentistry: corporates display good growth despite contraction

Strong growth by incumbent corporate dentistry groups and a spate of new corporate entrants have helped accelerate consolidation of primary care dentistry, though UK dentistry spending shrunk as economic depression and public sector austerity left their mark.The latest estimates from LaingBuisson’s Dentistry UK Market Report 2014 value UK primary care dentistry at £5.8bn in 2013/2014,…