Dental Practice Management
Infection Control Audits: How Often Is Enough?
Infection Control Audits: How Often Is Enough?
Dental Practice Management
Case Acceptance by Procedure: Which Treatments Your Patients Actually Say Yes To
Case Acceptance by Procedure: Which Treatments Your Patients Actually Say Yes To
Dental Practice
PPO vs FFS: The Math Still Favors FFS
Pure PPO dentistry reduces your profit margin by 40-50% compared to FFS, despite higher volume. Here's the financial breakdown and why the math still favors fee-for-service for independent practices.
Dental Practice
Teledentistry Rules: Still Unclear After a Year
Teledentistry regulations remain fragmented across states and insurers one year post-pandemic. Most practices don't know what's legal or reimbursed.
Dental Practice Management
Patient Financing: The Lender You're Leaving on the Table
Patient Financing: The Lender You're Leaving on the Table
Dental Practice
Heartland Restructuring: The Reckoning Arrives
Heartland Dental's $4B+ restructuring proves PE's consolidation thesis failed: synergies don't exist, debt crushes returns, and DSOs can't scale profitably.
Dental Practice
Supply Chain Has Stabilized. Margins Are Going to Pressure Again.
Dental supply shortages that plagued 2021-2023 are over. Patterson, Henry Schein, and Benco...
Dental Practice
Dental School Enrollment Dropped (More Consolidation Coming).
Dental school applicant pools contracted by 7 percent in 2024 admissions cycles.
Dental Practice Management
New patient experience: first-visit economics
New patient experience: first-visit economics
Dental Practice Management
Dental malpractice insurance rate changes
Dental malpractice insurance rate changes
Dental Practice
The Clear Aligner Market Just Fractured. Invisalign Is Losing Ground.
Invisible Braces, SmileDirect, Candid, and six smaller players all claimed 15-20 percen...
Dental Practice Management
Temp Hygienist Markup Just Hit 35%. Your Budget Is Broken
Temp Hygienist Markup Just Hit 35%. Your Budget Is Broken