The annual survey, which is conducted by ADDE, the Association of Dental Dealers in Europe, & FIDE, the Federation of European Dental Industry, through their national associations, contains many interesting statistics and trends for individual countries and Europe as a whole.

The 2011 edition presented at IDS in Cologne covers the period 2006-2010 and identifies the 2010 results in particular. The 2011 report provides a series of data that are indicate notably:

• The total sales for all countries surveyed increased by 1.5 %.
  
• The total sales of sundries increased by 2.9 %, while total equipment sales decreased by 2.6 %.
• The population of dentists slightly increased to 263.756 while the number of practising dental technicians went down to 155.994, the total of dental hygienist reaching a total of 21.360.

The full Survey report is available for € 260 Euros (€ 65 for ADDE & FIDE members) from:

ADDE General Secretariat
Moosstrasse 2, CH-3073 Gümligen-Berne, Switzerland
Phone: +41 31 952 7892 Fax +41 31 952 7683,
e-mail: uwanner@swissonline.ch
www.adde.info

Bank account No. 235 90-256.846.0, with the UBS AG, P.O. Box, CH-3000 Berne 77
(SWIFT address: UBSWCHZH30A)

Here you can find an example Survey from 2001: Graphs_Survey_2001.doc (~150KB)

ADDE and FIDE are constantly trying to improve the reliability of the published Data. That’s the reason that ADDE is publishing for the first time an update for certain slides that changed since we got the information that the value of equipment sales in Germany for the year 2010 was higher. This update is available on the website of ADDE, www.adde.info