Prologue
My Story
Fourteen years of paediatric dentistry, still enjoyable. Why she chose dentistry over medicine, and why living where you want should beat living where the practice happens to be.
The Issue
Spring 2011
Contents
Getting Started
When to Start Looking for a Practice to Purchase
Most dentists enter the profession to own. With debt over $200,000 the road is bumpier, so when does looking actually start, and what do the loan numbers do to the answer?
Getting Started
I Paid Too Much for My Dental Practice
When income disappoints, buyers conclude they overpaid. Nearly 1,000 practices analysed suggest the price is rarely the reason, and point to what actually makes a practice…
Getting Started
Your Journey Begins with the Right Tools
The standard start-up recipe is frugality, your own hygiene and bare essentials. A 2006 start-up that rejected it, and what the right tools were worth from day one.
Business Fundamentals
Credentialing: An Important Component of Patient Safety and Practice Quality
A hygienist arrived with an impressive resume, a bachelor's degree and an MBA, and plans were made around her. A case for verifying credentials before building on them.
Business Fundamentals
Disability Insurance: Selecting from the Menu
Disability cover comes as a menu, and the choices affect your financial health. The two basic categories and their components, explained well enough to order from.
Practice Builders
Empowered Performance
To produce $80,000 a month in restorative you must present two or three times that.
Practice Builders
You are the Expert! Your Patients Want your Recommendation
Four years spent mastering clinical skill, and then a small business to run. Why patients are waiting for a recommendation, and what the expert is expected to decide.
Practice Builders
The “Secret” to Increasing Profits in the Growing Practice! Creating Passive Income in the Dental Office
Most patients cannot tell excellent dentistry from acceptable dentistry.
The Power To Succeed
10 Tips for Young Dentists
Malcolm Gladwell's tipping point, applied to a practice rather than a product.