Prologue
My Story
You don't know what you don't know. From Tufts and Boston University through group, corporate and boutique private practice, and the book she wishes had existed when she graduated.
The Issue
Spring 2017
Contents
Getting Started
Let’s Find a Dental Practice – How I Did It
The standard advice is to call your supply reps and transition companies. What a second-year dental student did instead, starting with a road map toward ownership.
Getting Started
Student Loan Debt – Ways to Cope
The average 2016 graduate left with $261,097 in loans. Why the corporate salary that feels safe pays 25 per cent of production, and what the same dentist could earn owning the…
Business Fundamentals
Tips for Hiring an IT Professional for Your Dental Practice
Practices debate how much technology they need and rarely who will run it. What to ask an IT candidate, and how to test whether they can see past today's protocols.
Business Fundamentals
Career Suicide – The Easy Way
The quickest ways a dentist can end a career without meaning to, and what the transitions, group practice and publishing corners of the profession look like from the inside.
Business Fundamentals
IBM vs. Mac: Why Does It Matter to a Dentist?
Dentists have been told for years that Macs cost more. IBM's own deployment data says the opposite once support and maintenance over the life of the machine are counted.
Business Fundamentals
Age, Experience, Income, Debt Service and Retirement
Without the education debt there is no income, and without the income nothing gets amortised. How age, experience and reputation change what a dentist should do with the money.
Business Fundamentals
So, What’s My Best Option?
Options used to be standard: open a practice or buy one. Now only a handful of each senior class plans to own soon after graduating, and one size fits nobody.
Practice Builders
A New Way to Look at Dental SEO
More than 70 per cent of people seeking a local business start on Google. Why old dental SEO stopped working, and how to rank for your city and the areas around it.
The Power To Succeed
How to Not Fail Miserably as you Graduate
The most successful young dentists run themselves like a corporation, starting with a personal advisory board. Four people to name, and what each of them is for.