Practice Management
Average dental practice turnover runs 25-30% a year. Front desk and dental assistants churn fastest, hygienists a bit slower. Getting below 20% isn't about ping pong tables. It's about fixing the three things that actually make people quit. Here's the math that should scare
Practice Management
The benchmark is 1.5 to 2 assistants per dentist. A solo doc running two columns needs two assistants. Below 1:1, you're leaving production on the table every single day. Here's why the ratio matters more than most staffing numbers. Your assistant is the only
Dental Practice
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
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
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
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
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 supply invoice jumped from $6,200 to $6,950 this month. Same products.
Dentistry
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
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
You posted a hygienist job opening three weeks ago. Zero qualified applicants.
Practice Management
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