Practice Management
A single-location general practice doing $1.4 million in collections can get a DSO offer with a $1.3 million headline number on it, and still be the worse of the two choices on the table. Not because the buyer lowballed, and not because the multiple was wrong, but because
Dental Practice
LendingClub, Sunbit, Affirm, and 12 other fintech platforms all launched or expanded dental lending in ...
Insurance
Teledentistry as a cash-only revenue stream failed because insurance companies limited reimbursement and patients expected coverage. The margin math doesn't work.
Dental Economics
Most practices run overhead at 58-60%. If you're at 62%, you're leaving $150K-250K annually on the table through overstaffing and waste.
Dental Economics
Your supply invoice jumped from $6,200 to $6,950 this month. Same products.
Dental Economics
One percentage point of EBITDA margin on a million-dollar practice is worth roughly $50,000 the day you sell. Most owners will spend a year fighting a $9,000 supply contract and never touch the ten points of margin sitting in their fee schedule. So here is our thesis, and
Practice Management
A Four-Point Swing on $700,000 Is $27,937 of Profit Move your lab bill from 12% of collections to 8% on a $700,000 practice and you keep an extra $27,937 a year, which is roughly what a full-time hygienist costs in most markets. Now the uncomfortable part:
Dental Economics
Six points of overhead doesn't sound like a crisis. On an $800,000 practice it compounds to $1.92 million of income you never see over 30 years, according to the Academy of General Dentistry, which puts the recommended overhead target for general practice at 59% of collections.
Practice Management
Six percent of collections. That's the number, and it comes from a dental CPA, not a supply catalog. The American Dental Association's own practice management guidance puts inventory costs at no more than 5% to 6% of collections, with office supplies capped separately at about 2%
Dental Economics
National survey data shows flat production and rising overhead. Where the margin goes, line by line, and what to do about it this week.
Dental Economics
Lab fees are your third-biggest expense. Most practices haven't renegotiated in years. Here's the playbook.
Dental Economics
Most dental practices manage cash flow by checking their bank balance. Here's the 13-week model that actually works.