Dental Practice Management
Morning Huddles: The 12% You're Leaving on the Table
Morning Huddles: The 12% You're Leaving on the Table
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Healthcare operators and analysts covering the business side of dentistry. Benchmarks from ADA HPI, BLS, and Dental Economics. Dental Intelligence. No Noise.
Dental Practice
AI Caries Detection: Faster, But Not Smarter
AI caries detection shows 90% accuracy in studies but has high false positive rates in clinical practice. The software solves DSO problems (low-quality diagnostics) not independent practice problems.
Dental Practice Management
Infection Control Audits: How Often Is Enough?
Infection Control Audits: How Often Is Enough?
Dental Practice Management
Case Acceptance by Procedure: Which Treatments Your Patients Actually Say Yes To
Case Acceptance by Procedure: Which Treatments Your Patients Actually Say Yes To
Dental Practice
PPO vs FFS: The Math Still Favors FFS
Pure PPO dentistry reduces your profit margin by 40-50% compared to FFS, despite higher volume. Here's the financial breakdown and why the math still favors fee-for-service for independent practices.
Dental Practice
Teledentistry Rules: Still Unclear After a Year
Teledentistry regulations remain fragmented across states and insurers one year post-pandemic. Most practices don't know what's legal or reimbursed.
Dental Practice Management
Cost of Electronic Health Records for Dental Practices (2026)
EHR Switching: The Cost Nobody Warns You About
Dental Practice Management
Patient Financing: The Lender You're Leaving on the Table
Patient Financing: The Lender You're Leaving on the Table
Dental Practice
Heartland Restructuring: The Reckoning Arrives
Heartland Dental's $4B+ restructuring proves PE's consolidation thesis failed: synergies don't exist, debt crushes returns, and DSOs can't scale profitably.
Dental Practice
Supply Chain Has Stabilized. Margins Are Going to Pressure Again.
Dental supply shortages that plagued 2021-2023 are over. Patterson, Henry Schein, and Benco...
Dental Practice
Dental School Enrollment Dropped (More Consolidation Coming).
Dental school applicant pools contracted by 7 percent in 2024 admissions cycles.
Dental Practice Management
New patient experience: first-visit economics
New patient experience: first-visit economics