Prologue
We Did It and So Can You! Our Story
Two years into Commonwealth Dentistry in Lexington, Kentucky. Why the founders chose a start-up when almost nobody does, and the mentors they gathered before committing.
The Issue
Fall 2017
Contents
Getting Started
Have You Thought of a Career in Public Health?
What dental public health is, how to board certify in it, and why practitioners in the field describe their colleagues as the best part of the work.
Getting Started
Your Fundamental Choice: Making a Living or Making a Life?
Six-figure debt and a decade of repayment feel unprecedented, but every era set its own tests.
Getting Started
Ready to Own Your Own Dental Office? It Isn’t for Everyone!
Associate or owner is the question most graduates keep asking themselves.
Getting Started
2 Dental Location Strategies Worth $500 .... Just for Startups
Two location concepts for a start-up practice: what visibility and signage really buy.
Business Fundamentals
Purchasing, Starting or Expanding a Dental Practice: Investments in Technology Are Key for Entrepreneurs
A TD Bank survey found 67 per cent of dentists expecting revenue growth and 42 per cent planning equipment investment, as 42 per cent of dentists over 55 head for retirement.
Business Fundamentals
The Inequities of Earned Equity
Sweat equity assumes tenure should discount fair market value.
Business Fundamentals
Are You Financially Exposed: Navigating the Cyber Avalanche
The 2016 Net Diligence study put the average breach payout at $1.2 million, and the Office of Civil Rights has assessed almost $46 million in HIPAA penalties across 24,501 cases.
Practice Builders
Winning in Dentistry
Associate, scratch practice or acquisition: in all three the hardest part is not the dentistry, it is the people. Winning the trust of your staff, and then of patients.
The Power To Succeed
Women in Dentistry: The Flexibility and Reward of Ownership
Two CPAs run the numbers: a long-term associate on 30 per cent of collections might average $223,000, where the owner of the same million-dollar practice could make $400,000.
The Power To Succeed
Your Pathway to Practice
Social media will tell you there is one way to build a career. There are several, each with its own recipe, and three principles that hold whichever road you take.