How Dental Atlas collects data

Every figure comes from a public source, carries a date and links back to where it was found. The rules below apply to every report.

Our data rules

Public sources only: practices' own websites, the Swiss Official Gazette of Commerce (SHAB), building permit notices, job ads and official statistics.
Every figure is dated and linked to its source, so you can check it yourself.
No person is named. Practices appear by company or brand name, or by street and postcode.
Directories are used only to count practices, never as a source of practice data.
Job ads are counted and linked. We do not copy their text.
We report what is published, without labels such as "likely to sell".

From each practice's own website: tax point value, published prices, opening hours, services, languages, equipment and online booking.

Checked monthly.

Commercial register notices: new dental companies, owner and management changes, mergers and groups buying practices.

Checked weekly.

Cantonal and municipal building permit notices for new or converted practices.

Checked weekly.

Public job ads: roles, workload, how long ads stay online and stated pay, against the association's salary guidelines.

Checked weekly.

Federal Statistical Office: population, age and growth; practice counts from the business census and directories.

Updated yearly.

Practices for sale on marketplaces, press reports on acquisitions, published valuation benchmarks.

Checked monthly.

We say openly what is complete and what is still being collected. This table is updated with every monthly snapshot.

Data	All 26 cantons	Status, November 2026
Population, practice counts, residents per practice	Yes	Complete
Dental groups and their locations	Yes	4 largest groups
Commercial register changes	Starting	Zurich region so far; weekly feed for all cantons being switched on
Published prices (tax point value)	Starting	Zurich and Lausanne; monthly website check of all practices being built
Job ads	Starting	Canton Zurich so far
Building permits	Starting	Large cantons first
Equipment, opening hours, services, languages	Planned	With the website check

A simple, checkable measure of how dental prices move. First publication once two monthly snapshots exist.

Basket: practices that published a dentist tax point value in both the base month and the current month, so we compare the same practices.
Value per practice: the midpoint of its published range.
Index: median of this month divided by median of the base month, times 100. Base month = 100.
Published for Switzerland and for each canton with at least 8 practices in the basket; otherwise marked "not enough data".
Old tariff values from 1994 (such as 3.10 or 4.50) are excluded, because they are not comparable.