Practice Transitions

by Dr. Kha Nguyen
Dr. Kha Nguyen shares smart budgeting tips to launch a profitable, customized dental startup from day one.
September 2025
Dentaltown's monthly dental poll reveals how other practices operate, what works, what doesn’t and how dentistry is evolving. The information we gather each month helps us measure trends in the profession. Take a look at this month’s topic and results on buying, selling and remodeling.
August 2025
by Dr. Thomas Giacobbi
Editorial Director Dr. Thomas Giacobbi shares lessons learned from hiring various types of associates and emphasizes understanding each other’s goals.
September 2024
Ethics, broken promises, and toxic practice culture
July 2025
by Dr. Suzanne Ebert
Dr. Suzanne Ebert discusses the five- to 10-year run-up before retirement, and the personal and professional considerations each dentist should take into account when creating their own plan.
August 2024
by Jason Wood, Esq.
Attorney Jason Wood speaks on the critical considerations and timing involved in deciding when to hire an associate.
March 2025
by Dr. Thomas Giacobbi
Editorial Director Dr. Thomas Giacobbi says when you’re considering retirement, it’s important to balance matters of money with matters of the heart.
August 2024
Dentaltown's monthly dental poll reveals how other practices operate, what works, what doesn’t and how dentistry is evolving. The information we gather each month helps us measure trends in the profession. Take a look at this month’s topic and results on buying, selling and remodeling.
August 2023
by Jason Smith
For dentists who are looking ahead to retirement, a smart transition plan is essential to ensure the hiring and full transition process goes smoothly. These four finance-related questions from Jason Smith, founder and CEO of Four Quadrants Advisory, will help dental practice owners determine what they need to know before they get started looking.
December 2022
by Dr. Howard Farran
Dentaltown founder Dr. Howard Farran explains why, after 35 years of practice ownership, he decided it was finally time to put Today’s Dental up for sale.
February 2023
by Dr. David Hirshfield
Dr. David Hirshfield learned the hard way that retiring from dentistry involves much more than just selling your practice and moving on. In a first-person look back, this Townie shares more than a dozen takeaways from his 4½-year journey—including the things he wishes he would’ve thought about earlier.
October 2023
by David James
Locate Strategy founder and CEO David James explains which types of data young dentists should be looking at before deciding to buy—or even work as an associate at—any dental practice.
New Grads Edition 2023
One doc sitting on the FFS fence has questions about membership plans. Townies chime in with examples of their plans and experiences.
June 2024
by Dr. Howard Farran, DDS, MBA
Dentaltown founder Dr. Howard Farran explains what young dentists often overlook when they’re deciding which practice to join as an associate.
July 2024
Dentaltown's monthly dental poll reveals how other practices operate, what works, what doesn’t and how dentistry is evolving. The information we gather each month helps us measure trends in the profession. Take a look at this month’s topic and results on buying, selling and remodeling.
August 2022
A Townie talks about his DSO journey, including an update three years in the making.
July 2022
A Townie shares the start of a saga in buying a precarious practice
April 2022
by Dr. Tom Snyder
Dr. Tom Snyder provides a comprehensive pathway and timeline for dentists to consider as they plan to sell their practices.
February 2020
by Dr. Manu Dua
Not even a decade into practicing dentistry, Dr. Manu Dua knew that his job made him miserable—something few dentists would dare to acknowledge after eight years of higher education and hundreds of thousands of dollars in tuition and student loan debt. But after Dua was diagnosed with oral cancer in July 2019, he reconsidered how he wanted to spend the rest of his life, which led to him selling his practice and leaving the industry.
March 2021
by Dr. Thomas Giacobbi
As thousands of new dental school graduates enter the workforce, editorial director Dr. Tom Giacobbi shares some of the new challenges this group will face—and how to overcome them.
May 2021
by Jay Geier
When you’re finally ready to sell your practice, this advice from Scheduling Institute founder and CEO Jay Geier will position you for maximum profitability and minimal problems.
July 2021
by Jay Geier
Scheduling Institute founder and CEO Jay Geier explains four techniques that predatory buyers often use to flatter and fluster dentists into selling their practices at values that don’t reflect their true worth.
August 2021
by Dr. Adrienne M. Hedrick
Dentists are often told that opening an additional practice will lead to greater success, income and happiness—but if those practices aren’t set up well, there’s a good chance the inverse could be the actual result. Dr. Adrienne M. Hedrick shares her first-person story about opening, and then closing, her second (and third) practices, and the most important things her fellow dentists should consider before taking that step themselves.
November 2021
by Jay Geier
Independent practice owners usually fall into one of a few different categories, and how they define their role informs which steps they should be taking to help improve the success of their business. In Part 1 of a two-part series, Scheduling Institute founder Jay Geier starts the conversation about how dentists in each category can best position themselves for when it’s time to sell their practice.
November 2021
by Sam Mittelsteadt, editor & creative director
For seven of the past 10 years, Dr. Bob Koff has worked seasonally at McMurdo Station, a research station run operated through the U.S. Antarctic Program. Turns out, that’s only one of several dozen international locations he’s visited and practiced in.
October 2022
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