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, or performance. That needs to become as routine as asking about anticoagulants. Then there is the gray market, which is where things get messy. Demand for these drugs has exploded faster than access. Cost, insurance barriers, and shortages created a gap, and the market filled it. Compounding pharmacies
March 27, 2026
Pharmacology
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. AI can capture what was said. It struggles with what mattered. Dentistry adds another layer of complexity. Our notes are not just clinical summaries. They are tied to codes, insurance claims, and legal justification for irreversible treatment. That is a tighter loop than most primary care notes. Now
April 20, 2026
Practice Management & Administrative Forum
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Anyone else drive in a sim rig? I got one last year and it's been a blast. And the great things about it? No insurance! No tire expenses! No worry about crashing a 1M car! and I can drive any course I want in the world; whether it's cruising on the Tokyo highway system with some friends, or racing
May 19, 2026
Leisure
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some struggling dentists do? Look at the post below. Some dentists blame struggling on low insurance reimbursement. No, thats not the cause. Just ask Scott, Mauty and Laz. One is INN another takes DMO while another takes Medicaid. Some new dentists blame struggling on lack of advanced equipment
August 12, 2025
Dental Students
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the insurance reimbursement goes up. We are doomed as a profession. Especially when our labor cost is going up like crazy. How feasible is it for all dentists to become fee for service? I don't know. End of the day, it feels like a constant game of selling if you wanna be profitable. Days of GPs running
December 16, 2025
Academy of Dental Management Consultants
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to. They will answer and tell you that it is another department, which you will never reach. All things considered, it is super generous. In fact, it is better than any insurance plan that I have ever seen. So hard working folks with great insurance are now covered less than most of these folks, while
February 15, 2026
Ethical Issues
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chair of like under $200 I think it is very unlikely that the practice only has $130k of expenses beyond rent. That means insurance, electric, lab fees, materials, office expenses, PLUS payroll? I would look into those numbers. 50% overhead is really tough to hit with low collections-- I think
March 04, 2026
Practice Acquisitions
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year at convention a dentist in his neighborhood was in my booth at Socal convention. He asked who he could purchase from and one of the three i gave him was My buddy Dick. Doctor said, I love the guy, if he carried any insurance I would use him. I about $hit my drawers. I had a meeting with my
May 13, 2026
Legal Issues, Malpractice, & Insurance
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patients a day, wolfing down my lunch in a little 10 minute break, most of the time with patients in the chair. Then I realized it was NOT the way I wanted to do dentistry. Now I see 4-6 patients a day. My lunch is noon to 2pm (2 hours) and I make more money You must drop all the insurances and collect
June 03, 2025
Laboratories
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heating wires embedded. So are you saying that the hoses used for each is made out of different materiall? CPAP units use vinyl tubing, it's cheap and handles wet warm room air just great. The hoses are on a replacement schedule for CPAP and they ain't cheap. Ours is covered by insurance but retail
June 04, 2025
Equipment
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office are needings to go to assisted hygiene seeing two patients per hour to maintain profitability with low or stagnant insurance reimbursement and increasing wages. This leads to hygienist burnout. This is what I see because we have clients all over the country. It's not a problem everywhere. Even
June 06, 2025
Hygiene Discussions
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or something. You win I had to google that word. I thought it was some kind of slang for soda. Various insurance companies get to share all sorts of information about us in making decisions on coverage. Dentists should have a data clearinghouse where we can share information on patients to decide
September 26, 2025
Social Media
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rights 5. Use of space: host, guest and common space 6. Insurance requirements 7. Rental inclusions/exclusions and payment terms 8. Default remedies 9. Control of use 10. Length of occupancy term 11. Early termination Seek assistance from a qualified lease attorney and have a proper sublease
September 03, 2025
Partnerships and Associates
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fentanyl addict? Hmmmm. OK you are the Jeffrey Dahmer of DT. Whoa whoa whoa whoa, Dont think that Im going to let you sneak through here without bringing up the special tax treatment given to the whole life insurance industry. Youd be in the breadline if those went away. I enjoy a nice cup
July 01, 2025
Politics
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help reduce further. The biggest culprit we see today is virtual credit cards (from the insurance companies). @Alex Sadusky Who should I go with for Merchant Services? BoA DOES NOT allow 3% credit card surcharge pricing. 1. US Bank owns Elavon rate 0.2% with 0.07 cents per transaction with $25
July 02, 2025
Accounting / Bookkeeping
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first! Stop the military actions all over the world. Remember? Meanwhile young Americans cannot afford healthcare insurance. Based on who is unhappy about the capture of Maduro, I'm calling this the greatest coup ever. Venezuela has been liberated, the way Panama was. A decisive leader, who isn't sleepy
January 03, 2026
Politics
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, or CPAP appliances. This fits the same pattern. The Flow device is expected to launch in the United States by mid 2026, likely by prescription, with pricing estimated in the several hundred dollar range. Insurance coverage discussions are ongoing. That means patients will ask about it. Some already
January 03, 2026
Mental Health, Well-Being, and Stress Management
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anymore. We have been experiences ever increasing demand but since I am a solo provider with 2 hygienists, I am starting to cap out and will need to look at dropping insurances soon. It is a great position to be in and I have Justin to thank for it. He is also launching a dental supply program, my
January 27, 2026
Marketing
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recall. Lucitone is supposed to have a body temp modality that helps prevent fracture. Although this is only here say. Oh, I can say is I have been pleased enough that I would never think of going back. I am getting to the point now, where patients with insurance will really benefit. I can print
February 07, 2026
Removable Prosthodontics
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. My monthly nut is: 25k in payroll, 5k in rent, 5-7k in cc bill, 4k in health insurance premium. About 40k in revolving liabilities. lol. If you wanna feel safer and invest some of the money, get a LOC from your bank. I had one every year and never touched it, but it was there if I needed it. If I
February 03, 2026
Practice Management & Administrative Forum
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at their place changed the backups to run Monday Morning. I'm tired of IT companies. This isn't rocket science. Especially for an office as small as I am. Why pay out $2,000 a month for IT company, dental software, messaging software, paperwork software, xray software, insurance claims software
November 13, 2025
Practice Management & Administrative Forum
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) to unmask themselves. One area that CA hammers us (I know, one of many) is Workman's Comp insurance. I get mine through TDIC. Seven total employees (nine if you count me and the wife). Five full time. An associate about 1 day/week. And another part time hygienist. Workman's Comp bill for the year
February 11, 2026
Politics
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and it works great. What does that cost? So I have a remote worker that works from home and part of what she does involves sending faxes for insurance etc and she is set up to send fax by way of her PC. She doesn't have need of a physical fax machine or phone line for it. I get her fax capability
March 31, 2026
Front Office Discussion
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Dentists know a clean story when we hear one. A patient has a problem. A doctor finds it early. A treatment fixes it. Everyone goes home happy, insurance pays fairly, and the hygienist has time for lunch. Then we wake up. Cancer has always attracted clean stories because it is terrifying
April 24, 2026
Oncology
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a female bully. No peer review, no insurance panel, no jury will hold you liable. It's a bummer that HIPAA handcuffs us from defending ourselves. Not sure if your staff/patients can just say you didn't work on that tooth? Dude, don't meet up with them. Good luck finding a lawyer and a dentist
April 16, 2026
Legal Issues
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company (insurance, verification people, dental operating software, IT company, dental service stuff), if they hold you hostage or cause issues with your business, move to someone else. It's a free market. The issue is dentists are lazy af and don't like to change things. As a dentist and software
April 28, 2026
Dentrix
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of that...but my dentists need assistants...if you have 3 dentists you would need 3 assistants so who is answering the phone or filing insurance claims? Each dentist nets at least $500K/year. We worked shifts of 7am -1pm and 1pm to 7pm. There is only one doc in the office at a time except for the shift
May 08, 2026
Staff Management Issues
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of single tooth dentistry and of failures and not knowing how to avoid them. I've been through the entire curriculum now and transitioned my practice to comprehensive dentistry and dropped all insurances. And it's all because I am able to do complex restorative cases with confidence. Good luck! Brian
March 04, 2026
CE Comments / Suggestions / Events
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on getting the loss ratio laws passed in other states, or my forced insurance participation based on accepting AOB with BCBS law changed. Or address education costs. Or many of the other efforts that would help our profession. Again that isn't the discussion. I would love for that to happen
May 30, 2025
Preventive Dentistry
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to listen: The most money and effort I have invested with NO return is probably marketing consultants and companies. Most have promised the world and all have failed miserably. In two cases, I was given my money back. They are probably fine for insurance and volume driven practices, but they were
January 06, 2026
Marketing
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it? But let's continue. The next big category is private domestic investors. Ordinary Americans through mutual funds, state and local governments, insurance companies, and pension funds. Together, American investors hold roughly 24 trillion dollars of United States debt. Now this is where it becomes
December 08, 2025
Personal Finance
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working career in dentistry. Something will break in the industry if there is no course correction ( hopefully it's the insurance cartel but likely it'll be the new grads sanity ). The Becker's Dental Review analysis of 69 U.S. dental schools in 2023 paints a very uncomfortable picture for the future
May 19, 2026
School Specific Discussions
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% (18% Mortgage Rates) 2006 38.1% (Housing Bubble 1) 2024 39.4% (Housing Bubble 2) Average: 29.8% Annual house payment inclusive of mortgage, tax, insurance, and maintenance, as % of Median Household Income 19672024 (Sources: FRED / Zillow / Case Shiller / US Census Bureau) The chart shows that U.S
August 13, 2025
Personal Finance
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the 250k FDIC insurance limits. The FDIC had to step in to protect the depositors to prevent further panic in regional banks and potential systemic risks to the broader financial system - and economy. Payroll companies, vendors, etc were exposed to the crisis if more people pulled their money out
August 21, 2025
Personal Finance
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gain for him was 30% more than if he worked for 5 years. This is exactly how he explained it to me. He's very happy. He said they did drop some med insurance carriers and medicare which has affected his collections to the downside. He didn't say by how much. I'm not sure if his understanding
October 01, 2025
Academy of Dental Management Consultants
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! Bob, Of all the "campaign types" making recall calls rated pretty low. I guess the pre-appointing everyone fad + shortage of hygienists has dentists not caring as much about outbound calling of overdue recalls. Now, short call lists to fill immediate openings and insurance eligibility
October 08, 2025
Patient Communication / Education
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post tax and split into 3 allocations, 1 allocation to checking account and 2 allocations in CD/Money Market account/high yield saving, withdraw for another 2 years. Sell building on third year of retirement, and allocate funds as above for 4 years. Until 65, my largest cost is health insurance
October 20, 2025
Retirement Planning
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with the patient/provider at the DSO. You are probably okay. Would you be willing to post their x-rays, perio chart, and clinical findings (bleeding/plaque etc) so we could have the debate of SRP or not? :) Do they have a history of any SRPs or perio maintenances? Does this patient have dental insurance? I
October 27, 2025
Legal Issues
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you have single-handedly solved the insurance reimbursement issue that plagues so many dentists. Have all female dentists quit. /sarcasm Is there a specific number of days or hours/week that a physician must work? How about early retirement? At what age/how many years must a physician work
July 24, 2025
General Discussions
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their financial data. Eventually you will see through the bullshit of high producing practices and those that you could replicate from scratch just by taking many insurances. bGold, The last picture is Murph's extraction manual, I referred to it many time many time... The secret to sub 50% overhead
July 26, 2025
Practice Acquisitions
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- given all the time you took to give me advices; which I am VERY thankful for!!! So, I've just been pushing really hard, got enrolled with more insurances and some of the higher end Medicare (NOT medicaid). I got to say I am still hanging by a thread, the practice loan is the one that has been hitting
December 22, 2025
Practice Acquisitions
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would recommend molar endo even if it tested normal. I will say it again and again though: You give way too many blanket statements about clinical dentistry with no thought to clinical and scientific research, and you talk about insurance a lot (what insurance pays for, what it doesn't) as well
November 04, 2025
Restorative Dentistry
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and datacenters. Iren leading the way up 13% with lots of other plays up 5-10% UNH in an absolute blood bath. Need a Trump pivot bigly. Meh- that's my answer to insurance companies. Boom generation stocks with greedy CEO's. I'll stick with my highflying profitless tech and speculation My thesis since I
February 03, 2026
Personal Finance
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a measurable impact across the board. But that is so never going to happen due to the NIMBYs. Median home sale price as of Q2 2025 is 410k . Wtf lol. Homeowner insurance rocketing up 70% since 2021 . lol Can anyone explain why we are going to war with Venezuela? And if this is bullish or bearish? Oil? Dentists
November 30, 2025
Personal Finance
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with an "ends justify the means" mission. Probably nothing 100% accurate. Not that they turned out to be bad people, but all of the guys that I knew that basically paid for the car, gas and insurance themselves STILL take care of their equipment 40+ years later. Most of the others that had
February 10, 2026
Politics
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not shied away from controversial opinions such as mandatory COVID vaccination, the physician's right not to treat the unvaccinated and revoking the licenses of doctors who opposed vaccination. For patients who refused vaccination, he proposed charging them more for their hospital bills, life insurance
February 22, 2026
Politics
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100% is because of insurance. if a 25k drone hits a tanker and sinks a 100 mil tanker- insurance will not cover it. its the same exact problem like covid. 1 case meant shut down the school- eventually we learned to live with it. the problem with the tankers is that 1 case of a tanker blown up is 1
March 28, 2026
Personal Finance
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, but hope he is wrong. I think the 90s planted alot of the seeds of the fruit we see today, NAFTA , Internet, rising power of health insurances, beginning of offshoring of jobs, CEO pay starting to skyrocket. I'm with denver, as the economy contracts those in power are the haves, and the average citizen
April 27, 2026
Personal Finance
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by lacing her protein shakes with cyanide and tetrahydrozoline. They argue his motive included multiple affairs (including with Cain), financial stress, and a desire for a life without Angela, possibly fueled by a life insurance payout. Cain's testimony underscores the emotional intimacy and intensity
May 06, 2026
Dentistry In The News
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. We're hearing about this from Israel - why didn't you hear about it from Hamas (it doesn't serve the narrative they have been feeding you)? I'd sure hate to own a Tesla in LA right now. OTOH, the insurance would let me by a new EV made by someone else - maybe you could burn it yourself and make out
June 09, 2025
Politics
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