Abstract
The dental press has been fill ed in recent months with discussion of the potential impact of corporate bodies on dental practice in the UK — corporate bodies surely had more publicity than much else in dentistry during 1998. There appear to be two points of view. One, expressed recently in this column, is that the dentists employed by such organizations might lose independence and that they would be likely to have monthly targets to meet. The other viewpoint is that the dentists so employed would be freed from much of the administration surrounding everyday general practice and would therefore be free to concentrate on the clinical aspect of dentistry. Perhaps both views have some credence, but the publicity has served to focus thoughts on the impact of business in dentistry.