Dental Practice Management
DSO associate turnover hit 34% in 2025. You're not hiring doctors, you're renting them.
DSO associate turnover hit 34% in 2025. You're not hiring doctors, you're renting them.
Dental Practice
Dental Practice Marketing Attribution: Which Channels Actually Work
Most dental practices have no idea which marketing channels actually work. Here's how to measure attribution, identify your highest-ROI channels, and stop wasting 40-50% of your marketing budget on channels that don't produce results.
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 Practice Expansion: Second Location Economics
Opening a second dental location costs $640,000-$1,100,000 in true first-year expenses and takes 20-28 months to break even. Here's the real financial model most practices don't calculate before expanding.
Dental Practice
Dental Practice Debt-to-Income Ratios: The Real Numbers
Practice debt-to-income ratios above 30% create financial stress; healthy practices maintain 15-30% DTI with flexibility for downturns.
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
Dental Office Phone Systems: VoIP Migration Economics
VoIP phone systems save dental practices $500-800/month compared to legacy systems, with faster deployment and better features like call recording and remote access.
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 ...
Dental Practice
CMS capped Medicare Advantage ortho benefits. Your 65-year-old isn't getting braces.
CMS capped Medicare Advantage ortho benefits. Your 65-year-old isn't getting braces. CMS finalized the 2026 Medicare Advantage ortho cap: $1,200 annual maxim...
Dental Business
Patient Volume vs Case Value: Which Grows Revenue Faster
Growing practice revenue through higher case value is 3-4x more profitable than growing through patient volume. Here's the math and three concrete strategies to increase case value immediately.
Dental Business
AI Treatment Planning Tools: Hype vs Reality
AI treatment planning tools save 5-10 minutes per complex case with $150-200/month cost, offering positive ROI only if you use them systematically.
Dental Practice
Intraoral scanning hits 67% adoption. Film and impressions are officially dead.
Intraoral scanning hits 67% adoption. Film and impressions are officially dead. Intraoral scanning adoption crossed 67% in early 2026. That's the inflection ...