Prologue
At Dee for Dentist, Technology Makes the Difference
Assistant to her childhood dentist in high school, then his associate for five years.
The Issue
Spring 2015
Contents
Getting Started
Top 2 Concerns for Future Practice Owners
Group practice non-competes can bar you from working within five miles of any current or future location, which in some states means the whole state.
Getting Started
The Times They Are a Changin
Your dream is private practice and the first step is an associateship.
Business Fundamentals
Should PPO Fees or Full Fees Be Reported on Claims?”
The ADA advises billing full fees and taking contracted write-offs after payment, and so does the author. Why, when 85 per cent of dentists participate in one or more plans.
Business Fundamentals
The New Normal: Employee to Owner
Average dental school debt reached $209,000 at public and $284,000 at private institutions, and US News still called dentist the best job of 2015.
Business Fundamentals
The Last Number First
The selling price is the first number a buyer sees and the last one they stop worrying about. How to work out whether it is fair, and which ratios to read before it.
Business Fundamentals
Strategies For the Challenges Ahead in Private Practice
ADEA put 80 per cent of the Class of 2014 in debt averaging $247,227, with 30 per cent over $300,000.
Practice Builders
5 Things You Must Do to Successfully Market Your Practice
Solo ownership fell from 67 per cent of dentists in 1991 toward a corporate marketplace.
Practice Builders
7 Leadership Skills Every Practice Owner Should Develop
Excellent dentistry is a given and no longer enough. Seven leadership skills, from written goals per role to systems documented well enough that a departing team member cannot…
The Power To Succeed
Together We Rise
A hundred employees given Thanksgiving turkeys, and then one called quietly into the office in tears. What actually happened in that meeting, and what it taught about leadership.