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what is being collected/charged. Assuming you already have the fee schedule for the office, as well as what PPOs they participate with. What are the insurance writeoffs (meaning production vs adjusted production). If it is a digital office this should be easy- ie. Dentrix, EasyDental or similar
December 10, 2025
Equipment, Acquisition & Practice Expansion Financing
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rich cocksuckers (said lovingly) like Peter in the form of insurance subsidies. Our priorities in this country are seriously twisted. Create a 3-4% 30 year mortgage rate for the working poor who qualify. They must have decent credit. A stable history of employment, etc. etc. I am not pro-RFK Jr
December 09, 2025
Politics
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; we need to understand the concepts of evidence based medicine fathered by Sackett and frequently misused by gurus, insurance companies, and health care practitioners with an agenda to promote or a "legacy" to protect.
February 20, 2026
TMD and Occlusion
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very much for making your first post on Dentaltown! Great first post - keep them coming ! What type of patients? Private, insurance, HMO, PPO or Medical? Unless you are great at marketing and know how to attract new patients, this is not a great opportunity this practice doesn't pass the sniff test
February 17, 2026
Practice Acquisitions
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few years. They will help you establish your plan, monitor your progress, check ancillary things like insurance, guide you with the long term goals in mind, keep you abreast of tax changes that may impact your plans. And it keeps you accountable, so you don't do stupid things like invest your life
February 23, 2026
Retirement Planning
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retirement . I figure I'll associate at least a few years while I learn how things work. I have no idea what insurance is like, no idea about regulations, etc. if I can find an associate position that can keep me producing 4000+ per day I may just stay at that forever. Gross is fine. Price at 3x
February 11, 2026
Practice Acquisitions
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, not anything outside the building or any codedriven upgrades. For example, I recently had to upgrade the electrical system in my small sixunit apartment building (classified as commercial) because of new building code requirements and insurance demands. The quote came back at about $80K, owning a property can
April 24, 2026
Dental Office Design/ Construction
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myself a purveyor of truth. yes many patients have commented on enjoying not having to come back for a second visit. I do plenty of onlays too (rather than big-ass 4-5 surface composites or amalgams), and it's a joy with the cerec, just prep, design, bond. Fun stuff. Insurance downgraded to amalgam
April 16, 2026
Practice Management & Administrative Forum
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an insurance quote prior to purchase. VERY costly to insure, Very costly to fix after an accident. Neighbor backed in to mine in the driveway. 10,200 dollars in damage. He screwed up both doors passenger side. New parts only for Tesla body repairs.
April 10, 2026
Automobiles
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arch wasn't included. There are also allegations of billing third parties and insurance inconsistently, and continuing to bill patients who actually had credits on their accounts. Next comes patient rights violations. The dentist allegedly withheld records for months, up to a year in one case, and even
April 08, 2026
Legal Issues
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everything in sight so insurance costs to bypass the strait skyrocketed making it cost prohibitive. I do agree that overall not a whole lot was accomplished and this could have been managed much more tactfully, but at least the cards are on the table now and the objectives are clear: bypass Hormuz first
April 08, 2026
Personal Finance
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see a USC dental education as a good investment. It would be too big of a hole for me to contemplate starting a career of declining reimbursement and insurance company and governmental control. If you had a trust fund like mine... I trust you will find a way to fund yourself...you're screwed
May 11, 2026
School Specific Discussions
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demise of Obamacare has helped. It often came with crappy dental insurance and the only ones who liked Obama care got it for free. I see less of those patients and more people with jobs. Hygiene is up. Airfare prices are definitely higher than 20%. Convoluted inflation report won't answer anything
May 12, 2026
Personal Finance
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to dismiss. I didnt even have to be there. It lasted over a year and was dropped , which means some lawyer actually lost money on the deal. Thats kind of funny. My malpractice insurance did not even go up. ITs been a non event. Case description . I referred a guy with rotton teeth to an oral surgeon . He
May 28, 2026
Patient Communication / Education
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. It appears that there are plenty of dentists that are willing to do that. The same ones who complain o social media about insurance companies and DSOs apparently. You choose the method and I will choose if I want to pick a company that does the right thing or one that wants to cheat Schein. Here
September 16, 2025
Cybersecurity
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an insurance study on retained endodontically treated teeth that were done by endontists vs. ones that were done by GPs...I think he stated result of somewhere in the neighborhood of 5% if memory serves...keep in mind...this was basically NO MATTER WHAT was done clinically!?!?!?!!!! So my point
June 09, 2025
Endodontics
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....I bought my house for 640k...6 years later it's at 1.2M Right. Not all negative, but my home insurance went up 60% this year (they blamed LA fires, Florida hurricanes, and I live in the Midwest BS reasons), the landscaper wants more money, electricity went up, property taxes went up due
June 11, 2025
Personal Finance
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are paid. Money is set aside for church/tithes and retirement. A little extra for fun (a paint brush, and some paper from the dollar store). But paying staff a livable wage in a very high COL area...dealing with insurance headaches (the movement to AI is frustrating). More taxes. IMHO, if you're
June 06, 2025
Mental Health, Well-Being, and Stress Management
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portfolios over to her. She makes more than I do. I am a female dentist and have been for over 30 years. I am the breadwinner in my family. My husband works but he works away from home. I have carry health insurance for our family including my two stepchildren and have for over sixteen years. We have
September 03, 2025
Practice / Family Management for Women Dentists
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(and whether they can get can get patients scheduled properly). - And oftentimes, they control your money by virtue of the fact that they handle insurance verification and sometimes billing All that being said, I find they are often undervalued and overlooked. An amazing front desk person can turn a price
August 26, 2025
Marketing
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there. I don't understand the difficulties. This is basic. FWIW, I looked at the cases you posted. Most of them loaded, some did not. Several were just questions about insurance. One was a meth head pain control question. Could not get patient numb Injection site pain. RCT or EXT question Inadequate
August 27, 2025
Pediatric Dentistry
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sign a letter absolving you of responsibility. Get one from your insurance carrier. Write off the rest and move on with life. You must charge for the work already completed. You spent a sizeable amount of time on this project and have completed most of the work except for final impression and seating
September 11, 2025
Cosmetic Dentistry
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. Well back at the farm here in Wisconsin, Delta insurance CO. just bought a large DSO. They now own 34 practices that will quickly become members of their network. My largest account just dropped them as the reimbursement was too minimal. I know that when I was 30 years old(25 yrs ago), we were
September 23, 2025
Laboratories
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place the last 3 years it has been a huge relief not having a mortgage to worry about. At 50 I am currently working on a salary and have three kids' tuitions and crazy car insurance to pay. My RE payouts with the increase in interest rates and some PE mismanagement have decreased by over 90
October 22, 2025
Retirement Planning
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before it was dropped. I had a noob lawyer. The oral surgeon had 2 sharks. case dropped. I had zero consequences. My malpractice insurance didnt even go up. I wouldn't touch a patient on dialysis 4x a week, she was wearing a denture and gosh, just leave her alone. What could All-on-X do for her
October 22, 2025
Implant Controversies
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work about 33-36 hours/week, my front and DA work about 34-40 depending if they are scheduled for that Friday half day. I never send them home when they have cancellations, I just have other stuff for them to work on. They get 3 weeks PTO and 8 days holiday pay, 401k match 4%, no health insurance
October 27, 2025
Marketing
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This is a shit chart, the data has been visually manipulated to make it appear that home prices have gone up 10x over 50 years when real purchasing power has only increased about 2x. Late 30s. another thought: most insurances have 1000 or 1500 annual max. In the 1980s (and 90s) you could get a lot
October 27, 2025
Personal Finance
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better amalgams. I now have photos of them after 30 years in the mouth. Maybe YOUR amalgams don't make it that long. Insurance stats say most crowns do not make it that long, unless they are gold. Don't know why you would call this standardized treatment "herodontics." Would you really consider
October 29, 2025
Restorative Dentistry
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. Theyve never been put on hold by an insurance company. Everyday Luxury Their casual shopping trips are at Louis Vuitton. Their skincare routines cost more than your rent. Their dogs wear designer collars and fly private. Travel Reality Check They dont fly they avoid the TSA altogether. They use
June 30, 2025
Politics
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short term capital gains. Imagine running to fixed income because your thesis is orange man is bad. while stocks march higher and higher. Sadly I would reckon that theres a lot of people that did that. 2.5% real yield is attractive. its basically an insurance plan that pays you a premium while
July 27, 2025
Personal Finance
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job loss and insurance loss and no more patients to pay the bills. I admire your ability to recognize the catalyst and react accordingly. I don't have that ability. guys who are all in stocks prolly have cash or something liquid to hold them over for like 2 years living expenses. recently heard
August 11, 2025
Retirement Planning
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the claim and mollify the FDA and insurance companies. Given the pH of the products, the FL is doing nothing. Just think about when an office provides an FL treatment and gets reimbursement...after a cleaning. The basic chemistry behind this is nonsense. You need the pellical to be present due
November 02, 2025
Pediatric Dentistry
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traffic laws and collide with stationary or rule-following Waymos. Since July 2024, Waymo reported 38 serious crashes, but only one was clearly its fault. Their crash rate is dramatically lower than that of human drivers-83% fewer airbag crashes and 81% fewer injury-causing crashes. Insurance data
November 04, 2025
Personal Finance
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that were placed nearly 50 years ago .... I am so thankful to the dentist who placed them.... Without a doubt, there would have been a lot of recurrent decay, bigger fillings placed and eventual crowns had they been composite.... is the "no amalgam ever" philosophy an insurance policy so dentists will have
November 04, 2025
Amalgams
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political division that is so evident now. Oh and his ACA pretty much destroyed the American Healthcare system, caused widespread massive premium increases, and gave insurance companies record profits and control over the system. But he spoke well. Many of the fissures in America right now were initially little cracks created by the Obama administration.
February 06, 2026
Associates Corner
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end is out of money, health insurance increased 1000%. This is it. it doesn't matter if we cut .5 bp or 1 bp, we gonna have to see capitulation before things turn around. wallstreet is catching up to Main Street- not the other way around. TO can you provide a date for when the sky falls...I'd like
November 21, 2025
Personal Finance
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of mortgages rates tripling, property taxes doubling and home insurance and HOA's up by double digits. Wages didn't keep up/go up anywhere close to that since. 3. Practice ownership is also delayed as well. Less dentists buying a dental office in their 20's and 30's, compared to pre-2019. DT
December 14, 2025
Personal Finance
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hours and you come in here with no dental insurance, credit card or cash. Hey, this is getting to be a real pain in the butt. What in God''''s name are you guys, a bunch of intergalactic liberals or socialists?" He shook his head. "You earthlings. You always get sex, religion and politics
December 07, 2025
In the News
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. There are a very few in the bottom 90% folks on DT to comment on how the economy is doing. This group is the actual economy. American consumers spend... 35% on housing (includes rent, utilities, etc) 20% on car (includes auto loan. insurance and fuel) 15% on healthcare (monthly premiums mostly) 10
February 15, 2026
Personal Finance
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zip code.. but the more I drive outside my neighborhood and to other cities, I realized the islands of wealth exist all over America. We all know housing is very expensive for the average consumer, health insurance too, auto payments, etc. People are doing ok, but they have pulled back
March 09, 2026
Personal Finance
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front and rear doors. Going to be pricey to fix. He is well insured and very apologetic. The worst thing about Tesla? Insurance rates! They are very pricey to fix.
March 22, 2026
Iran, Islamic Republic of
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here. We dont apologize for not pushing our daughters into the rat race. But no, They dont care what I think, so much as watch their mother. the kids give me all sorts of crap. They dont give any to Mom. Sometimes, I wish my wife worked. One bank even offered her a job with health insurance
April 15, 2026
DentalTown Referral Network
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These 'expert' witnesses are just really licensed individuals working for the side that pays them. No different whatsoever than 'expert reviewers' that insurance companies use to 'justify' their denying of obvious work. Whoever pays is the boss. It is not hyperbole. The patient was under IV
April 20, 2026
Legal Issues
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directions and office insurance policy. I want it SEO optimized also. Please output files for download. Hit enter. 5. Refine as you wish until you are happy. 6. Tell claude: I use X hosting with the domain Y that I bought. Tell me exactly how to upload these files to my hosting and where to put them. Claude
April 30, 2026
Building Your Website
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/hr ($40k/yr before taxes) cover the mortgage, insurance, property taxes, etc of 200-300k townhouse these days? How much would be left for utilities, groceries, car related expenses, student loans, etc? All of which has gone up significantly over the last 5-10 yrs.., and still rising. Can most even
May 03, 2026
Personal Finance
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home and it's not big deal. If you don't have a drivers license with Real ID, you can still get thru but it'll cost you $45 and you'll have to provide a whole bunch of cards with your name on them, i.e. CC, Health Insurance cards, SS cards, etc. So bottom line, I wasn't gonna hafta drive back home
May 07, 2026
Vacation
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or insurances. We have issues keeping pace with inflation with our income. We are the tallest dwarf. Meaning, compared with the rest of the working class we are doing well and that's why 99% hate us. That said, we are still dwarves. We don't have political lobbying power and unlike the billionaire class
May 20, 2026
Personal Finance
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months working. Why not go out on your own terms? Practice sale should be icing on the cake. I don't think anyone should let the practice value determine their retirement date. Plus, cutting back on hours can be a healthy thing for the practice also. Cut out the shitty insurance plans, raise fees
May 21, 2026
Retirement Planning
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painful and covered by insurance. This is agree to disagree, but I think it's important to know for new grads that there isn't just one path, you need to think critically about the demographic of your office, what you want to do, and what your weaknesses are. I do agree you need to be able to do
August 20, 2025
Dental Students
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RCTs or EXTs. We are struggling because we are $300,000+ in debt with loan repayment plans up in the air, low insurance reimbursement, and pressure from owner docs, or high school educated office managers, to always be producing more. It's the golden handcuffs that are tough! But think about dfw's
August 23, 2025
Dental Students
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