Source profile
A practical map of the ADA Health Policy Institute datasets behind many claims about dentist income, staffing, reimbursement, ownership, consolidation, and access.
Current role
Chief economist, chief of international relations, and vice president of ADA HPI.The ADA says Marko Vujicic oversees HPI's oral-health-policy research program and the Association's global initiatives. His prior roles include health-economics work at the World Bank and World Health Organization.
Why the work matters
HPI publishes unusually broad dental-economy data.The useful material is not a single opinion. It is the recurring survey, workforce, reimbursement, ownership, Medicaid, and state-level data produced by the HPI research team.
Key limitation
Survey evidence and institutional interpretation are different layers.Response bias, national averages, question wording, reporting lag, and ADA policy priorities all matter. OnlyDentists should link the underlying report and label the population, date, and method.
Dentist income, gross billings, expenses, hours, reimbursement, staffing wages, practice size, and DSO affiliation.
Quarterly dentist-panel reports on confidence, busyness, staffing, insurance friction, investment, and owner expectations.
April 2026 analysis of staffing adequacy, recruiting difficulty, training capacity, wages, reimbursement, and practice margin pressure.
Dentist supply, migration, DSO affiliation, Medicaid participation, reimbursement, utilization, and oral-health access by state.
Source profile reviewed July 2026. It is not an ADA endorsement or an assessment of every HPI publication.