Prologue
Hurdles of a First Year Dentist
A new graduate on skipping the residency race for general dentistry, and what the first year of turning his father's single-dentist practice into something larger really demanded.
The Issue
Fall 2012
Contents
Getting Started
Dental Practice Financing: How Do I Obtain a Loan in Order to Buy a Practice?
Banks did not stop lending to dentists: nearly a billion dollars went to the profession in 2011.
Business Fundamentals
Can I Afford a $700,000 Practice?
Average dental school debt reached $178,000 at public institutions, yet lenders will fund an acquisition two years out.
Business Fundamentals
The future of Dentistry: How Will The Level of Competition Change?
First of a series on the profession's future: how graduate numbers, longer careers, rising productivity, paraprofessionals and workforce law will reshape competition.
Business Fundamentals
The role of the Senior Dentist: Ethical and Risk Management considerations
An associate was told her liability insurance had been taken care of. It had not. A case study in what the senior dentist owes a junior one, ethically and legally.
Practice Builders
Creating Growth In the New Economy
Record debt, fewer associateships and banks reluctant to lend. How practices grow against that, using internal marketing properly and outsourcing everything that can be outsourced.
Practice Builders
Building Your Personal/Professional Brand Through Social Media
Your personal brand is what employers, colleagues and future patients find when they search your name. Why building it starts before you have a practice to attach it to.
The Power To Succeed
Begin With the Patient in Mind
Fire ants link their bodies into rafts that float where a single ant drowns. What that says about patient-centred practice and the chair-side mindset behind it.
The Power To Succeed
Good to Great: What Elite Practices Do Differently
Two Harvard Business School students set out to define an elite practice: over $1.5 million in revenue per dentist and staff scoring 9 out of 10.