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to add to this..... By working hard at the beginning of your career when you are still young and healthy......making a lot of money so you can eliminate debt ASAP......forget about investing when you are drowning in debt. Being a slave to the banks is stressful. With zero debt, you get to retire
December 29, 2025
Practice Management & Administrative Forum
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as it once was. GA school of orthodontics which takes 40 kids per PG year is certainly hurting the specialty. But it still beats general in so many aspects: (easier on body/healthier, more geographically flexible unlike GP, more income vs hours worked, more reasonable options for an associate ortho
December 30, 2025
Personal Finance
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trying to get a sip of water, from a firehose. Step by step? Listen to midwestboy just above. IMO, your primary issue is your legacy front desk. You need to know her job BETTER than she knows her job. Right now you are doing dentistry for your own health and enjoyment. It's lots more healthy and much
November 04, 2025
Practice Management & Administrative Forum
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that are vital and healthy at the moment, and big fills on teeth with irreversible pulpitis or pulpal necrosis. This as a good point, and typically ( not always) what I would do if I get an exposure. I don't do endo anymore so I will still do my filling and refer. I ask these patients when they return for a core
November 04, 2025
Restorative Dentistry
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their dreams come true. Young dentists are the bottom half of the K shaped economy. I think there is a fair number of even dentist and other young professionals struggling. Unless you're 35-40+ and were able to get established and sock away a healthy nest egg pre 2020-ish, many are facing significant
January 21, 2026
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to unload their goods that they produced to sell to America, but, again, we are not buying. China oil was primarily Venezualian, now? notsomuch. China is being boxed out. Population changes? again- healthy, wealthy, and stable humans in a stable environment produce more children that grow up to produce
January 28, 2026
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is only taking 300K. Doesn't sound like a great practice for major growth, but also not a practice you can step into and maintain for a healthy cash flow. I'd agree with most others on passing unless there are major details we're missing. Others have already stated the obvious. The biggest question
November 21, 2025
Practice Acquisitions
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they were flying people in. Now a certain amount of immigration is healthy and necessary but 10 million? Now you have too many overcoming the school systems and health care systems. While at the same time not paying all the taxes that regular citizens pay. Many are under the table. Then they went
November 19, 2025
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does. Imagine hating America as much as Flock does, and still staying? What a bitch. I always knew flock was not healthy. Amazes me that this was/is not universally known. I admit, I did not know he was this hateful and bigoted. What a dick. I'm on the East (ghetto) coast of Florida visiting pops
December 14, 2025
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you? The estrogenic tide. The inverted, the resentful, the hollow men and their shrieking harlots and harpies. They sense her and they convulse. Because she's the restoration. The return of the healthy, the whole, the fierce guardian of the hearth. The Matriarch. Her strength's a mirror
December 09, 2025
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, clinicians start to feel like they are working in a rigged game. Some dentists said they do not even care if the story is 'real.' They assume liability is baked into treating the public. That mindset can be healthy, as long as it does not slide into resignation. There is a middle ground between panic
March 26, 2026
Anesthesiology
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healthy? That's where I've landed-yes, on the surface, tardiness or inefficiency isn't ideal. But if it's not materially impacting patient care or the stability of the practice, it may be more of a leadership choice than a clear-cut problem. There can be a future cost (lost production, missed opportunity
April 20, 2026
Staff Management Issues
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control and grow and find enjoyment elsewhere (like most people do). Take more vacation. Become a bigger part in your kids' lives. Pick up a hobby. Get your body/mind healthy. The answer may not be more dentistry. Given the OP's post I'd venture the answer is most likely not more dentistry. I agree
April 06, 2026
Pediatric Dentistry
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a Briton to consume the same amount of goods and services that would cost $67,600 in America. But that's merely a different way of stating Europe's problem. Europe's economies look healthier in PPP terms to the extent a lower price level allows households to stretch their euros and pounds further
May 02, 2026
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with same-day crowns and fillings, consistently report healthier margins. Big Versus Small Practice Models The thread also highlighted two schools of thought. Some dentists swear by lean, modest practices where they keep a high percentage of collections, even if the total gross is lower. Others
August 21, 2025
Practice Management & Administrative Forum
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over 75% of the wildlife management in America. They are the means by which an ecosystem is balanced, taking the necessary number of animals (as determined by wildlife biologists) to sustain healthy populations of every species. There is a limit to what any area can support, this is called its
October 06, 2025
Hunting & Fishing
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to early retirees is what do you do about your health insurance? I see something like $25k in health care yearly premium. If you can't afford to pay 25k in insurance a year you can't afford to retire at 50 I would say. No way around it. You might could save some if you are healthy and you try a medishare
May 08, 2026
Retirement Planning
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on the treatment plan for 19? Biggest struggle for dentistry is fees? ADA? Lab?.... Endo ? OP Pt complained of lump on gum by UR6 , upon on inspection it looked like a sinus tract. she said its been there for three weeks. Tooth was vital and not ttp . I had a backlog of pts so I prescribed Abx
July 30, 2025
Endodontics
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such a great life. O wait what? We actually had to be tired by the end of the day? Who could possibly accept this????? Of course lets send our sons and daughters to build houses. Much more relaxing. Just don't fall from the roof or get shot with a nail gum. Dealing with organized crime and syndication
November 25, 2025
Personal Finance
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we do. This is so far and deep, it's pretty clear that this was used as leverage on..I would guess all segments of American politics and society for decades. You can't let that level of corruption go, or continue. I think, luckily, the country can walk and chew gum at the same time. I would bet
February 12, 2026
Associates Corner
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, and cabinets prototypes were always done. Willamette dental group had the very first A-dec chairs in the USA. I'm betting AI does no better in this area. AI has not met Suzy! Suzy the hair twirling, gum snapping, very empty headed attractive dental assistant, doc did not hire her for her mental
March 27, 2026
Residencies, AEGDs and GPRs
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as it doesn't get below the gums , in between the teeth or in the cracks and crevices. The folks that have accepted the fact a nylon bristle can destroy the hardest structure of the body yet leave the gingiva pristeen are either not thinking or tired of fighting. That's right this is now
April 21, 2026
Periodontics
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is, how will you ever sell your practice to MB2? They're only interested in healthy 7+ op offices that someone else has spent years building. And by skipping out on a dental coach, you're passing up the once-in-a-lifetime chance to grow your practice to 20 opsbecause, of course, that's the only way
June 06, 2025
Mental Health, Well-Being, and Stress Management
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. Ideally you'll also have a version of your site offered in Spanish. Depending on what procedures you're seeking to do the most you should have a healthy budget in the neighborhood of $30k to $50k over 6 months to get off to the best start as new owner and to position yourself where you'd like
August 26, 2025
Marketing
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to refer her to do RCT. The child is 12. Everything is documented. All conversation. If we see healthy tissue laid down in future we will take this as a win and she will never require RCT. Was one of the reason that you performed DPC on this patient was due to the age? I would and have done so
August 27, 2025
Pediatric Dentistry
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your style is and embrace it. I think blowing off a little steam after seeing a patient that was intentionally difficult is healthy. Bottling that stuff up is, as someone else mentioned, a great way to burn out. I'm the same as Tricks. Sometimes I feel like venting creates comraderie. I also think
October 09, 2025
Practice Management & Administrative Forum
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of previous years as Feds are slow to act. I'm still in open. I bought at .9 then sold at 3.5... then rebought in at 6. I do have some regret but I did make a healthy profit from .9 to 3.5 which allowed me to buy stuff like nbis which went up 50% the other day. I try not to sit on regret. I look at it as I
September 12, 2025
Personal Finance
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. Realistically for a healthy patient, it should only take 15 mins or so to scale. I really don't know what they are doing the entire time. Maybe just front desk and hygienist , no assistant, and skip the two additional patients. Maybe better to break even but not get so backlogged with hygiene patients. I did
August 21, 2025
Staff Management Issues
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not a leadership problem. Your situation is experienced by many first time PP owners. I experienced for 3 whole long miserable years. How were you able to overcome it, after 3 years? Details? Youre talking like being ethical means avoiding production. It doesnt. Nobodys saying drill healthy teeth
September 03, 2025
Ideas To Make Your Practice Grow
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well in healthy dentin, it stuck on it's own, with no other treatment to the dentin...that was always amazing to me...I think happened quite a bit. A far cry from the crap we put in today...the profession has gone in the wrong direction...its really so sad...oh well...such is life. We are devolving
October 29, 2025
Restorative Dentistry
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preference - some do, some don't. A good office manager can be a healthy way to offload some business administration tasks and free up personal time for the doctors. For a group model, it is usually the best practice for operational continuity across clinics. They are usually a salaried, full
July 02, 2025
Academy of Dental Management Consultants
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the problem with lower interest rates. But how does one lower interest rates and instigate tariffs on trade partners? it will contract the GDP, undermine corporate profits, it will undermine demand for labor and capital. Its not healthy proposition for the economy. Now, people might ask why did Trump take
July 27, 2025
Personal Finance
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the trauma incurred to the people who have to clean up a suicide. I suppose the long and short of it is.its mental illness, and not relatable to a healthy mindlike mine or yoursLOL. The Ram Economic Index for June was strong, beating Ram estimates: In June 2025, U.S. domestic passenger traffic rose
July 20, 2025
Politics
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Glidewell and very few adjustments but plenty of great labs out there. overall: no perfect restorative material. Nothing beats a healthy tooth but hopefully things get better any questions on this, contact any dental school Thanks for posting. I agree Wow, you're better than the rest of us
August 13, 2025
Restorative Dentistry
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control costs was to get younger, healthier people to buy plans on the exchange. Allowing people up to 27 to remain on their parents insurance seemed to counter act that idea. You are thinking long-term. Put on your Ram hat and think like a D. Yes, to both of your points. But take a moment to admire
October 31, 2025
Politics
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What's really getting me on this is how much is enough? I have made a concerted effort my entire life to stay healthy and active, but I sometimes feel like dentistry is a war of attrition. I certainly don't want to hand over the key to my office and drop dead in a few years on a pile of 15 million
January 20, 2026
Retirement Planning
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are invaluable for anyone who cares about scientific reasoning, intellectual honesty, and healthy skepticism. They teach not what to think, but how to think by emphasizing evaluation of evidence, recognition of cognitive biases, identification of logical fallacies, and resistance to wishful thinking
January 29, 2026
Religion & The Spiritual Side of Dentistry
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. There are three dental schools in Boston, and competition between dentists there is fierce, resulting is grossly overvalued practices selling in days. For a 50% discount a buyer can purchase a very good, healthy practice here, but it ain't Boston. Strange dynamic, but that's how it is. This is not really true
October 30, 2025
Practice Sales
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gains don't guarantee future returns. In addition, when inflation adjusted that 10% is more like 6-7% annually on an adjusted basis. I understand the temptation to plug healthy returns into your calculations and seeing a fortune on the horizon, but personally I prefer to use more modest numbers in my
November 20, 2025
Personal Finance
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it, though I didn't see it on their website. I did find this group of podcasts... screenshots probably necrotic pulp. Do PARL's form on normal, healthy teeth, other than instances of like PCD (would be more than 1 tooth and ethnicity is often a clue in those cases). or what have you? Do PARL's form
December 16, 2025
Practice Management & Administrative Forum
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was in California. So many places I didn't visit, that I wish I had. SLO and SB are def top on the line. No joke, I get teary eyed sometimes thinkin about my time in California. We are wacky here in California. But everyone is really nice and we are healthy. Tennis and golf is literally year round. I
December 03, 2025
Retirement Planning
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makes it much easier to eat healthy here. Allergies have been a lifelong issue for me, yes they come back and they worsen as we age. One of my fave expressions, getting old sucks, but it sure beats NOT getting old. Or . . . "I'd rather be seen than viewed"! Thanks for that one Tom....That's a keeper
December 07, 2025
General Health
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, but bf is active and healthy, and sometimes you have to be optimistic. Bf asked if there was a brace that would help, MD is going to have him fitted for it. Hopefully we can get it before our trip to CO. Bf says he will do Manitou Incline regardless. I said I didn't want to have to listen to him b
December 10, 2025
Leisure
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by the fact that y'all are unable to see it for what it is. Trump breaks people. It's not healthy. For you haters, or for society in general. I voted against Trump in 2019 because I saw this. Trump is just too much for the masses. The reaction to Trump. Epstein files. Ballroom. Insanity. For sure
February 25, 2026
Associates Corner
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christianity, and have a major distaste for Christians, you guys know more about the Bible than any Catholic I've known. Is it healthy to have that much hate that you spend that much time studying something that is , in your opinion, completely fabricated (this is not aimed at you4k)? I do find
February 27, 2026
Religion & The Spiritual Side of Dentistry
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. In addition they are not booking out on their restorative schedule as far because they are doing recalls on 8 healthy pts a day. The doc has time in their schedule to book $14k days because they are not being interrupted for multiple hygiene checks. In this model hygiene is offered as a courtesy to pts
March 19, 2026
Ideas To Make Your Practice Grow
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a renewed sense of proportion, remembering that politics is necessary, important, and limited. A healthier political culture may begin not with greater ideological fervor, but with deeper humility about what can and cannot redeem. For when politics becomes our highest love, it will also become our
March 25, 2026
Politics
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is heavily Mormon (seen this happen). Did not go well for the new dentist. 3. A healthy active patient count (patient seen with in past 18 months). In my Bread and Butter PPO dentist hands, I would anticipate $800 production per active patient. So I would anticipate 1000 active patients is potential
April 24, 2026
Practice Acquisitions
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a healthy skepticism. This will change as millennials come of age. We are a cynical and skeptical bunch, and grew up with computers and phones and people constantly trying to scam us. No shade at boomers, just trying to state the facts as I see them. Being cynical has its cons as well. I think DSO's have
April 01, 2026
Future Planning General Discussions
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on the business aspects and still others on the clinical intricacies. Not all will succeed in being happy, healthy and wealthy. Most dentists will not see true financial stability for many years. Young dentists look at older ones and think "Why am I not living like that?" Because for most it takes time
April 02, 2026
Personal Finance
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