Dental Practice
Your Overhead Is 62%. Industry Average Is 58%. Here's Why You're Bleeding Money.
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 Practice
PE Has $2.5T Sitting Idle. It's Coming for Dentistry.
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.
Practice Management
Dental Practice Manager Salary 2026: $48K–$85K Range
The short answer: a dental office manager in 2026 costs between $52,000 and $85,000 in base salary, and where you land in that range depends mostly on practice size, not geography. A solo practice with 4 operatories pays $52K to $65K. A multi-doctor practice doing $2M+ in collections
Dentistry
Staff Meeting Templates That Don't Waste Everyone's Time
Your Monday morning staff meeting started at 8:00am. It's now 9:15am, and you're still talking about the broken sterilizer.
Practice Management
How Much Does It Cost to Replace a Dental Hygienist?
Losing a hygienist costs most practices $30K-$50K once you count everything. The recruiting fee is the smallest piece. The big money bleeds out through empty hygiene chairs and the months of ramp-up nobody puts on a spreadsheet. Here's the full breakdown, line by line, so you can
Dentistry
Your Employee Handbook Is a Lawsuit Waiting to Happen
Your employee handbook was downloaded from LegalZoom in 2018. It has generic boilerplate language about "at-will employment" and a vacation policy you...
Practice Management
Dental Front Desk Coordinator Salary by City in 2026
National benchmark first: in 2026, a dental front desk coordinator earns $18 to $26 an hour in most US markets. That's $37K to $54K a year full time. Loaded cost runs about 1.25x the wage once you add payroll tax, PTO, and benefits. Salary bands by city
Dentistry
The Hygienist Shortage Is Permanent. Here's How Smart Practices Are Adapting
You posted a hygienist job opening three weeks ago. Zero qualified applicants.
Practice Management
What Is a Good EBITDA Margin for a Dental Practice?
Ask three brokers what a good EBITDA margin is and you'll get three answers, because most of them are quoting numbers before owner compensation is normalized. Here's the version that holds up in an actual deal. The benchmark bands For a general practice collecting $800K to
Dentistry
Your Front Desk Is Losing You $30K/Month in Missed Calls
Your phone rings during lunch. Nobody answers.
Dentistry
New Patient No-Shows Cost You $200 Each. Here's a System That Cuts Them 60%
You block two hours for a new patient exam. They don't show.
Practice Management
Dental Lab Fees as a Percentage of Production: What the Benchmark Is and How to Audit Yours
Lab fees should run 8-10% of production in a restorative-heavy general practice. If you're mostly hygiene and fillings with few crowns, 5-7% is normal. Above 12% and you're either overpaying your lab or underpricing your crowns. Here's the math on a $1M practice. At