Global Dental Market Report: 2012 Edition

Dental market is bifurcated into two segments: dental consumables and dental equipments. Dental consumables represent the largest segment of the dental care industry. The dental consumables segment includes crown/bridge, implant, orthodontics, impressive materials, composites, endodontics, adhesives and cement. On the other hand, the dental equipment segment is composed of large equipments like autoclaves, sterilizers, chairs, communication systems, compressors, cuspidors and digital imaging system. Small equipments, including amalgam removal system, amalgamators, handpiece cleaner, lab equipments, duplicators and ultrasonic cleaners, also fall into the same product segment.

North America represents the largest market in the global dental market followed by Europe, Japan, Asia-ex Japan, Latin America, Africa and Middle East and Australia. In dental implant market, the largest share is accounted by the US followed by Brazil, Italy, South Korea, and Germany. The competition in the global dental implant market is intense with few large players viz. Nobel Biocare, Straumann, Dentsply and Zimmer.

The main drivers of the global dental market include low dental implant penetration rates and increasing worldwide elderly population. Another factor which drives the dental market is longer life expectancy since increase in life expectancy results in more elderly population. Increasing consumer income and increasing urban population are other major factors which boost up the dental market. Major mergers and acquisitions is a significant trend of the market.

Global Dental Market Report: 2012 Edition analyzes the global dental market as well as the two largest markets for dentistry – North America and Germany. Market dynamics including market trends, challenges which are likely to pose threat to the market and key drivers of dental market have also been included in the report. The competition prevailing in the dental market has been analyzed. The report also profiles the major players namely Nobel Biocare, Straumann, Dentsply and Zimmer.

By combining SPSS Inc.’s data integration and analysis capabilities with our relevant findings, we have predicted the future growth of the industry. We employed various significant variables that have an impact on this industry and created regression models with SPSS Base to determine the future direction of the industry. Before deploying the regression model, the relationship between several independent or predictor variables and the dependent variable was analyzed using standard SPSS output, including charts, tables and tests.