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and best of all, drop all the crap insurances that run you ragged. Free! Have you talked with your current marketing company about the owner's goals and what it would take to get there? It sounds like they've made progress, but it's hard to know without seeing what's actually being done, how the ads
November 19, 2025
Marketing
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is put out- the real vision of main street is becoming more apparent. Houses sitting in my neighborhood for months now when it used to go within 1-2 weeks. Patients coming in on cobra. Patients cancelling due to job loss/insurance loss. How anyone can be permabull at this point is somewhat crazy. Prob
November 19, 2025
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and increase demand, the price increases................. If only Bueller's teacher was around to ask about this strange phenomenon............... I don't live in Mexico. I care about house prices, grocery prices and insurance prices. 'Narcoterror' isn't on my radar. He was going to end it with a phone
December 09, 2025
Politics
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resilience. If nothing improves, do not assume buffer is wrong. Assume you have a bottleneck elsewhere. Sterilization. Assistant coverage. Room turnover. Insurance friction. The true bottleneck is rarely the dentist. It is the system around the dentist. One more recurring theme from those speaking
February 23, 2026
Practice Management & Administrative Forum
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but leave the change of regime to the Iranian people. has explicitly said it multiple times!!! Job is done and he's moving on in a sense. Yes. Definition of winning changes based on the latest developments. I hope Trump's 20 billion dollars new insurance coverage covers it. I am curious if he
March 07, 2026
Personal Finance
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. But the oldest dentists in the world remind us that patients still value calm competence, familiarity, and someone who knows their name before looking at the chart. There is a funny irony here. Dentistry is full of burnout, bad backs, insurance headaches, staffing drama, and the occasional day where
March 11, 2026
Personal / Professional Achievement
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a leasehold for 300k stating the office is all ppo and cash and associate run. Once I go look at the place I notice signage that states it takes medi-cal HMO and some ppo. Look at a few charts and it's all medi-cal (govt based insurance that pays 10 a prophy etc) These guys have a practice of literally up
April 24, 2026
Practice Acquisitions
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posted his schedule C. I guess people like to see 1+ million collections with the often quoted 65% overhead to net the same or slightly higher amount this DDS is making. Let's see how quick this gem... 105k on wages for 2 asst, 1 front desk, 1 part time insurance person, 4.5 days a week. Does not add
April 19, 2026
Practice Sales
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that some offices never use or <5% of the time. Coding takes time to test and complete with every payer. Did not know most of these codes. Do insurance actually cover any of these? like 2 arches of AOX prophy? how much 10 bucks? D4212 gingivectomy for restorative access D0350 intra oral photo D0460
April 09, 2026
Coding Q&A
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inflation in 2022. Anyway, I take it that you wish to make the higher gas prices permanent, blue state style, given that you will be voting democrat going forward. dam i wish more people were like you. insurance could throw me a bone- maybe give me 500$ to offset the inflation in my practice lol
April 12, 2026
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helicopter rescues and hospitalization, as part of a $45 million insurance scam. Your theory is that the whole system is stacked against the GOP. Mueller, Comey, Wray were all just Dem stooges, but also, lifelong Republicans. The good appointments were Kash, Bondi, Bongino, and to a lesser degree
April 04, 2026
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Association. It's plan became insolvent, no cobra, nothing. My office was too small to have a group, employed were on their spouses plans. My options were send my wife back to work and tag along on her policy, go without insurance, or leave my practice and go to work where there was a plan. The state
April 29, 2026
Politics
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. Wasn't it like 15 years ago or so when that female Houston dentist ran over her orthodontist husband with her Mercedes because he was two timing her? I think she may have been paroled a few years ago. it seems female dentists do it out of scorn and male dentists do it for insurance money. That's my
May 14, 2026
Legal Issues, Malpractice, & Insurance
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spaces, signage, who can own units, who can practice in the building, right of first refusal in the sale of a unit, etc. In our condo, we share alarm systems, compressors, vacuum units, amalgam recovery units, water, building insurance, janitorial services, garbage removal and lawn care, all of which
May 08, 2026
Dental Office Design/ Construction
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wants to erase it from our memories. Obama care tripled the cost of insurance. The Democrats record on fixing healthcare blows. The democrats tried to weaponize the IRS to attack its political opponents. I say sue them. One of them is already in jail. I spent 2 days in Canada once. Honestly, I have
May 20, 2026
Personal Finance
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insurance benefits doesnt bother me. I do want to quit dentistry though. That part I think most of us can agree with, this job sucks in sooo many ways. I hope you decide to stick around. You could post about mental health in dentistry, how to avoid burn out. Its a decent community on here. The good
June 17, 2025
Mental Health, Well-Being, and Stress Management
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, what insurance, etc. but for the sake of what you mentioned for a POE, if it were just a normal PPO one where you get paid maybe $200 per POE (being generous here), paying $50 per for these would basically mean the office is seeing these patients at very little benefit. one can argue again at unknown
January 11, 2026
Marketing
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in the house. I love dogs, I never fully trust dogs, too powerful, too unpredictable. Feral dogs are a big issue. Given it is impossible to buy insurance coverage for specific breeds, I keep a form of insurance very handy should powerful dogs be nearby. My very worst nightmare? Being defenseless
February 09, 2026
Leisure
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principles of dental materials has value to the public? If not, why not push to eliminate an undergrad degree and go straight to 3 years of dental school reducing the cost of education by 2/3? except when a dental therapist does something.... the insurance code billed is the same code and the same fee
February 20, 2026
Ethical Issues
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in a way that would have avoided your financial mistakes, if I were in your shoes. A good financial advisor should advise on RBAs of business investments, insurance issues, and frivolous home expenditures. I wish I'd gotten my advisor about a decade earlier, would've been a game changer You
June 03, 2025
Personal Finance
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are unable to accomplish procedures because of behavior you start accruing losses. Insurances should have a special fee schedule for special needs patients, because it is 10x the amount of work. One of my dental school profs said "any time you temporize a tooth, you lose money." He said it in regard
September 10, 2025
Pediatric Dentistry
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should have good video. I just spoke to the officer, he contacted the mother of the kid that kicked the rock and dented the car. I'm guessing she will need a payment plan, I don't need another insurance claim after hitting the deer last spring. Looks like this one was just a little kid kicking a rock
September 09, 2025
Automobiles
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on their parents' insurance until 26! WTH? 1 of my brothers has never been married and no kids. He was always searching for the next thing to pour his life into. Definitely not saying everyone needs to get married or needs to have kids, but for most it is one of the few things that will give you
June 23, 2025
Personal Finance
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pay full fee for nitrous now and sign a HITECH form. If they want to use their insurance they can go somewhere else or not have nitrous. It is just too costly now. The one-use nasal cannulas I use are like $12-14/unit Same, and I feel like we only get about an hour with the O2 bottle. I charge $150
June 13, 2025
Restorative Dentistry
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choices.....getting a living trust and will.....personal and professional insurances....etc. About that time (right about when the 2% of Dentists Can Retire by Age 60 thread got going) I started to wonder if I was on a good path. Am I saving enough to retire? That's when I and some others on here
July 15, 2025
Politics
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will sell more oil to China and Russia. Venezuela oil under US control is a threat to OPEC and the USD. If Obamacare did not rely on government subsidies paid directly to insurance companies, would we be in this position? ACA was passed under Democrats's total control of both houses and Obama
January 11, 2026
Personal Finance
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is something that you probably have to offer. You are correct in that most patients hate dentures. The key is setting expectations very low. You can have a great practice and not do removable. And, honestly, if you are in-network with any insurances, dentures are money losers anyway by the time you
January 20, 2026
Removable Prosthodontics
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participate with a couple of insurances. 4 ops. A lifestyle practice is a practice where I work half the time and I'm off half the time. I've been practicing for thirty years. Raised a family. My overhead is 65% When I see questions like this, the answer that comes to mind is always yes
January 20, 2026
Practice Acquisitions
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enough. You should look at wrapping things up in private practice and start setting a goal to sell within the next few years. Keep your eyes out for cush public health jobs. Move if you need to and your wife/kids are ok with that. Start planning seriously No health insurance loses money without hurting
January 27, 2026
Personal Finance
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, but we'd walked on the beach, around town, etc., and it would be very hard to track it down. I tried to comfort her by noting I had been paying for a separate ring insurance policy all these years, so maybe it would work out OK. She walked back out, looked down on the cement, and there was the diamond
February 05, 2026
Politics
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off and has to pay 27k for health insurance they are screwed. snowball will get worse, credit freezes, Fed cuts to 0 and rinse repeat. ill be waiting at the bottom buying discount prices on home and stocks. Stay in money markets wait for 10% down reevaluate. Prob nothing changes wait til 20% down
November 20, 2025
Personal Finance
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when thinking of insurance for the coming year and bi-annual scans. It has like a 97% survival rate which is also why its not front of mind. How we doing BTC's?? Currently at 92k. are people worried, selling, buying,, etc? curious what the OP and early posters are doing? For me, last buy was several
November 21, 2025
Personal Finance
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"the system" actually work, it is a good thing. It can save both your bacon and your patients. When the USA product we manufactured was named in a suit, our product liability insurance stepped up. Downright dangerous products are sold daily on Ebay. By privately importing these products you are also
December 05, 2025
Handpieces
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. Property taxes and home insurances are up a lot. Furnishing a home is also not cheap... with new appliances, furniture, etc will require additional money and dual income. I have not studied this, and do not pretend to hold any kind of expertise in the area. But for the young adults living in my
February 22, 2026
Personal Finance
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for 100k lawsuit potential. no to mention you have zero leg to stand on if you were to get sued. with exams you can sorta defend yourself. but with no exam and just cleaning? lol your malpractice insurance defense will scratch their heads. no thanks cya Canada v.s. United States of America. No big thing
February 24, 2026
Legal Issues
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inflation' in specific sectors, complicating the Federal Reserve's efforts to manage the situation. Sticky inflation refers to price increases for certain goods and services, such as insurance, public transportation, and rent, that tend to take longer to adjust. Here are some other leading
February 27, 2026
Personal Finance
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to the oil industry and the insurance companies behind them. No one wants that headache... specially by oil gulf nations whose economy heavily depend on oil. the world police. again. bold strategy to get behind. Getting rid of a nut job dictator trying to produce an Abomb fits our foreign policy
February 28, 2026
Personal Finance
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said no. Meanwhile, Iranian missiles and drones have made the Strait of Hormuz so dangerous that insurance companies won't cover oil tankers passing through it. Twenty percent of the world's petroleum normally flows through that strait. Oil prices are skyrocketing and consumers everywhere
March 17, 2026
Politics
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, and a lot of folks seem to believe it. The SoH flowed today at 25% normal traffic. When asked how many of the soldiers were getting free medical benefits, and health insurance from the United States despite not being citizens.....all of them raised their hands. When asked how things would've been, if Cumula
March 18, 2026
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positions in NATO. He's a highly respected military expert in France and regularly weighs in on issues of international importance. Trump has been pleading with allied nations to get involved in his Iran fiasco. Iranian missiles and drones have made it impossible for oil tankers to obtain insurance
March 18, 2026
Personal Finance
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of ai is not being shipped out. iran knows and sees this and is closing the strait... again. the only way out is boots on the ground right now because every taco move does nothing. and even if something positive happens in the strait the main reasojnwhy ships don't move is due to insurance premium
March 27, 2026
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is because of insurance premiums and also many tankers are asking themselves- is this believable?.... prob not. i don't believe it. the deal is so bad that it can't be belieavabke. i wouldn't be surprised that trump tweets that they broke the ceasefire and resume bombing tonight Here's the part
April 08, 2026
Personal Finance
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the practice from the bank. Again, all depends. Great YouTube video for your patients explaining insurance, DSOs, Private Equity and the inherent problems with all of these in dentistry. Shout out to Michael Davis DDS (who also has a very good guest appearance on this podcast 2 episodes back) as well
April 12, 2026
Academy of Dental Management Consultants
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, the IRGC does not. Trump should say to the oil tanker companies, here's your insurance policy: for every ship interfered with in the strait, we'll blow up two regime energy facilities. And then send the tankers on through. In that scenario, the US would not be the instigator, the US would be the response
April 06, 2026
Politics
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. Local Costco's insurance carrier denied my claim saying it was my fault (WTF). I searched Costco's CEO email and found it on Reddit. I emailed and a couple hours later he replied and the next day the manager reached out to me. It's so lame and dumb that sometimes you have to escalate, but if that's
April 02, 2026
Equipment
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that far. I just don't argue anymore. I tell them what I see, I give instructions and document the conversation. My response to the above would be "And You're the parent." I hope you have good insurance and by the way my anesthesiologist is amazing.....see you soon! This reminds me of a story my Mom
April 08, 2026
Pediatric Dentistry
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, insurances, etc. Some of us pretend it hasn't - and argue wages doubled and kept up with inflation, it hasn't. Affordability crisis continues. Exactly. Trump is coming back from China without discussing chips issues. Nvidia sent their top team with Trump and there was no time to discuss Ai in his
May 15, 2026
Personal Finance
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and first time home owners are 40+. even though gas is 6-7+$ a gallon even though we have a combo of inflation + shrinkflation of goods. even though consumer sentiment index is the lowest its ever been. even though health insurance for a family of four is more expensive then its ever been. Do an experiment
May 07, 2026
Personal Finance
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appraisal said was average for my area. My insurance , taxes and lawn care/snow is about 24K a year. Gotcha, that makes sense. So for simple numbers, if your practice was 2,000sqft, at those numbers, you would be at $36/sqft base rent with NNN's at $12/sqft for the incoming practice owner. It sounds like
May 22, 2026
Practice Management & Administrative Forum
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damaged. It's like your home insurance denying a claim of a coverage you have been paying for, for decades. Plus their oil super tankers haven't crossed the strait of Hormuz to export oil for 3 months, possibly much longer, and each of their ships will pay the Iran toll. Ofcourse the Saudis want the war
May 25, 2026
Personal Finance
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