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Great question. I am not sure about the "other" dental specialities. I am sure that there are perio, pros and orthodontists out there absolutely crushing it. But I believe this is an average salary nation wide. So there are OMS's making 50% more and 50% making less (roughly speaking). As for the Jabroni on here spouting off about perio, let's look at this from a different perspective. VC and PE groups look for those companies, sectors that make money. Thier job is to invest, squeeze and get out without loosing money. It will affect OMS even more that it already has. After that it will come for perio and pros. It is already creeping into ortho. (see Smile Inc.) I believe the only way to stem the tide is to make a law requiring that all dental practices are owned and operated by a dentist or the board of directors must be dentists. Similar to how a law firm can only be owned by lawyers not stockholders. This would (hopefully) put patients before profits. Currently, the VC and OMS owned supergroups say they are all about the provider and patient but this will change as these groups go through acquisitions and buyouts by other VC and PE groups. I think we have seen a leveling off of the rapid aquistions. There is a local group who recently had to buy out a senior partneer because he wanted to sell to a VC group and the rest of the partners did not. He was upset and left the group his father helped start because he wasn't able to get his big money buy out. Its these dynamics that are not good for the profession.
