4 DCA INSIDER / DECEMBER 2020
Message From The CEO
Overcoming the Obstacles of 2020 B
y any account 2020 has been a year unlike anything I’ve seen in my lifetime. The country has faced a once in a century event with the COVID-19 pandemic, a contentious presidential election, and an extraordinary year of weather events with the most named storms in history in the Atlantic Ocean. The magnitude of any one of these issues solely would be significant; but, in total they have narrated the story of 2020 as a year of unprecedented and extraordinary events. Even more so in the field of dentistry, the entire
field faced and an unimaginable shutdown of the entire industry as state mandates dictated the cessation of dental practice largely as we know it. Almost more unimaginable was the rapid and unprecedented reopening and restart of dentistry. However, most of DCA’s affiliated practices are operating at new levels of normal, and largely at full capacity. A year ago, this would have all seemed preposterous and we would have brushed off the potential for an event such as COVID-19 as highly improbable.
