Practice Management
One full-time front desk employee for every 1,200 to 1,500 active patients. That's the benchmark. For a typical general practice, that works out to roughly one receptionist per full-time dentist, and the federal data supports it: across every dental office in America, there are 83,950
Practice Management
One orthodontic practice pulled $120,000 back through its door from automated recall messaging alone, money it had already bought the software to collect and simply wasn't sending. That is the actual return on patient communication software, and it has close to nothing to do with the appointment
Practice Management
A 25% lift in case acceptance is worth nothing to a practice that's booked six weeks out. That's the sentence no AI vendor puts on a slide, and it's the first thing you should say out loud before you sign a per-operatory subscription. Diagnostic
Practice Management
On a $300,000 seller note, the difference between the 3% rate your broker will tell you is "market" and the 9% the IRS will let you charge is about $108,500 in interest over ten years. Same practice, same buyer, same closing date, same risk that the
Practice Management
A $2.6 million offer letter and a $1.82 million wire are the same deal. One of those numbers is marketing. The gap is the earnout, the rollover equity, and the quiet assumption that you'll keep producing like an owner while getting paid like an associate. Here&
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
Practice Management
The spread between a 45% case acceptance rate and a 61% one, on a practice that puts $720,000 of treatment in front of patients each year, is $115,200 of production you either scheduled or waved goodbye to. Most owners who go hunting for that money come back with
Practice Management
Your hygienist costs about 98 cents a minute fully loaded, and the American Dental Association has already told you that the extra 16 minutes a heavy-calculus patient eats is free. Not discounted. Free. The ADA's Guide to Reporting D4346 is explicit that a "hard prophy" needing
Dental Practice
LendingClub, Sunbit, Affirm, and 12 other fintech platforms all launched or expanded dental lending in ...
Practice Management
Two practices run the same hygiene schedule this year. Same eight-hour days, same 200 clinical days, same experienced hygienist earning the national median wage. One of them nets roughly $82,000 out of that chair. The other nets roughly $305,000. Nothing about the hygienist changed. What changed was whose
Dental Practice Management
AI receptionists handle 80% of routine calls (appointments, insurance, hours) automatically. That frees your front desk for higher-value work. $14K-$39K in annual savings per FTE, plus better patient experience.
Practice Management
There's a version of this business where the owner seeing nine patients a day ends the year with $418,784 more in collected revenue than the owner seeing fourteen. The owner grinding through fourteen rarely knows it's happening, because the number they're proud of