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A 23 Percent Assistant Churn Rate Costs You More Than Your Rent Replacing one dental assistant costs a two-doctor practice somewhere between $8,000 and $14,000 once you count the ad spend, the interview hours, the credentialing lag, the three months of half-speed production, and the hygienist who quits
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A second dental assistant costs somewhere north of $55,000 a year fully loaded, and the best available research says a 10% increase in assistants moves patient visits by less than 1%. Run that math honestly on a solo practice and the third assistant is a $20,000 annual donation
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Private equity has $2. 5 trillion sitting idle. The clock is ticking on 2025 gains. Year-end M&A in dental isn't random. It's tax-driven math.
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Two credible sources disagree about what a dental practice manager earns by $31,400 a year, and neither one is wrong. That gap is not a survey artifact. It is the sound of two completely different jobs wearing the same title, and the owners who don't hear the
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Your Monday morning staff meeting started at 8:00am. It's now 9:15am, and you're still talking about the broken sterilizer.
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A hygienist handing you a two-week notice is not a payroll event. It's a $56,770 hole in your schedule before you've spent a dollar on recruiting, and most owners don't see it because the wage line goes down the week it opens. Here&
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Your employee handbook was downloaded from LegalZoom in 2018. It has generic boilerplate language about "at-will employment" and a vacation policy you...
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Two honest sources disagree about what a dental front desk coordinator earns by $5.02 an hour, which is $10,441.60 a year on a full-time schedule. The federal government says receptionists inside dental offices average $20.41 an hour, per the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics OEWS
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You posted a hygienist job opening three weeks ago. Zero qualified applicants.
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Your phone rings during lunch. Nobody answers.
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You block two hours for a new patient exam. They don't show.
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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: