Prologue
Hurdles of a First Year Dentist
She wanted ownership within ten years, not in year one. What happened to a full-time associateship with a verbal promise of a partner buy-in, only months after relocating for it.
The Issue
Spring 2013
Contents
Getting Started
What’s Next?
A plan to start a practice with a classmate collapsed, then the financing did too. Why failing to get a start-up loan may have been the luckiest thing that happened to him.
Getting Started
Getting Your Financial House in Order
Credit underpins every large investment, from a first practice to a first home. Why credit scores move interest rates, and the five actions that quietly ruin a score.
Business Fundamentals
Restrictive Covenant Considerations for the Associate Doctor
Associates treat the employment agreement as a hurdle before the start date. What a restrictive covenant actually promises, over what period and within what geography.
Business Fundamentals
The Future of Dentistry (Part 2) How Will Changes in Insurance and Managed Care Affect Your Practice
Coverage has stayed flat at roughly half the population while its shape changed: fee-for-service indemnity has collapsed and PPO has exploded.
Business Fundamentals
Using Technology in the Office to Streamline Workflow toward Becoming Paperless
Paperless is a process rather than a purchase. The technologies that cut paper and supply costs, starting at the moment a patient first telephones for an appointment.
Practice Builders
5 Ways to Support a Profitable Hygiene Department
A thriving hygiene department is a source of passive income. Five ways to support one, built on a relationship where the hygienist genuinely backs your treatment recommendations.
Practice Builders
Growing a New Practice in the New Dental Economy
Young dentists accept that they must market, which makes them easy prey for external marketing experts.
The Power To Succeed
The Sex Talk – How to be a Great Lover / 100% Treatment Case Acceptance
Not a Cosmo survey. Years of research and 26 years of marriage reduced to four steps, and what building extraordinary relationships has to do with treatment case acceptance.