Nursing and personal care facilities provide in-patient health care. Convalescent homes are an example. Medical laboratories assist the medical professions by providing analytic and diagnostic services. Dental laboratories make dentures, artificial teeth and orthodontic appliances. Home health care provides medical care in the home under a doctor's supervision.
Dental offices provide general and specialized dental care.
Endodontists, orthodontists, and periodontists are examples of dental specialties. In doctors offices , licensed physicians practice general and specialized medicine and surgery. The largest employers of health services workers are hospitals, nursing care facilities, and doctors offices. These industries employ medical personnel as well as secretaries, clerks, and janitorial staff. These wages are in 1996 dollars, that is, they have been adjusted for inflation and represent real increases in spending power.