Office Visit blocks or pucks, and printers are a lot cheaper than mills. We will see an awful lot of challenges as well. We're already seeing third-party reimbursement rates not keeping pace with inflation-and in some cases, those rates are actually going down. This of course creates fiscal challenges for practices. The high rate of student debt we see with new graduates is a problem for the profession as well. New dentists need to take jobs that provide an income level that will allow them to service that debt. And taking on new debt to buy a practice is impractical for those who already have high student loan balances. Ultimately, because of the combination dentures, and new resins on the horizon could be game-changers for indirect restorations. Printing has the advantage of being able to create restorations at a higher level of detail than we can with milled restorations. If these resins are durable enough to be used for indirect restorations, it'll be big. The resins are far less expensive than ceramic 44 DECEMBER 2022 // dentaltown.com of fiscal pressures on practices and the debt loads of new graduates, I believe we'll see more practices being sold to groups instead of individual dentists. My plan right now is to continue to practice for about five more years. After that, I think it would be interesting to get involved in a different aspect of ourhttp://www.dentaltown.com