Dental Economics

Practice Management

Dental Lab Fees as a Percentage of Production: What the Benchmark Is and How to Audit Yours

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Dental Office Rent as a Percentage of Collections: The Rule of Thumb and When It Breaks

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Dental Supply Cost as a Percentage of Collections: What the Benchmark Actually Is

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Dentistry

Your Overhead Is 62%. Here's Exactly Where You're Bleeding

You collected $1. 2M last year.

Dentistry

Insurance Reimbursement Dropped 2-3% Last Year - Here's How Top Practices Offset It

You didn't announce it. Your insurer didn't send a notice.

Dental Practice

February production dip: it's not just the weather

February production typically dips 8 to 12 percent below the prior month. Every practice owner expects it. Most think it's patient behavior.

Dental Practice

The solo practice premium: why independents are worth more per chair

Private equity firms are paying 9x EBITDA for group practices. That same metric for independent dental practices is 11x to 13x. Why are they paying 20 to 40 ...

Dental Practice

Dental benefit plan design is getting worse, not better

Insurance carriers raised premiums 6. 8 percent for 2026. They didn't raise patient benefits. In fact, they narrowed them. Deductibles stayed flat.

Dental Practice

Your patient data is worth $250/record on the dark web

Healthcare data breaches hit 725 incidents in 2025. Dental practices accounted for 34 of them. When a breach happens, your patient records sell for between $...

Dental Practice

3D printing hit milling costs. In-office fabrication just became inevitable.

3D printing hit milling costs. In-office fabrication just became inevitable. In-office milling (Cerec, Dentsply) has owned the CAD/CAM crown market for years.

Dental Practice

Dental AI companies raised $800M in 2025. Where did it go?

Forty-three dental AI startups closed funding last year. $800 million poured into the sector. Not one changed how most practices actually work.

Dental Practice

New year, same overhead: why January is your worst month

You closed 2025 strong. Production was up. Collections were up. Then January hit and you watched it collapse. This isn't random. January kills 18 percent of ...