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the treatment plans that come from Aspen... The dentists werenottrained that way inanydental school in the country.... I can't tell you how many young, healthy 20-30 year old patients come in with a treatment plan whichalways includesperio on near perfect teeth and gums...No pocket depth, no bleeding
January 25, 2024
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Shervin M. Molayem DDS finds potential link between gum disease, severe COVID-19 complications. Dr. Shervin Molayem's study suggests that if gum disease patients have high levels of IL-6 when infected with COVID-19, they are far more likely to be hospitalized and suffer severe respiratory problems
December 22, 2020
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Private practice Seeking a Compassionate Dentist If you're passionate about providing exceptional dental care in a friendly and caring environment, we'd love to hear from you. At Vail Family Dentistry, we believe quality dental care is about more than healthy teeth its about happy patients who can
November 01, 2023
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for. I would think Addiction has touched many of us through family, friends, coworkers, etc- I sympathize with your friend that is trying to hold things together during this tough time. I wonder if the partner saw this coming at all? I can't imagine dealing with these circumstances, managing healthy
December 08, 2025
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. Collections are very healthy for a one doctor office. 1.4 last year and 600 ytd. Bread and butter dentistry with a lot of implant restorations, including all on 4 and implant retained dentures. Part of me wants to extend to late hours and possibly Saturdays to offer after work hours. The other part
May 02, 2018
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with employment status, ie employee versus independent contractor. I suspect, from what you have described, youwill be, in fact, an employee.50% of production minus lab fees and assistant may be a fair deal for you. Do you have any idea of what the practice can produce with a healthy dentist, based on past
November 08, 2015
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: - If you don't need an associate at this point, I'd suggest that your son get a job somewhere else. This would allow him to develop his skills and it would keep your practice financially healthy,. - Then when you decide to start to transition out a little bit both parties will be in a better
April 10, 2017
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. I would probably tough it out til you pay off practice as long your family/marriage overall is happy and healthy. I would say start looking for buyer, because that would be more difficult task given its 50% of the practice in semi rural area. See if there is any interest from buyers. If multiple
January 29, 2022
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would be a healthy pt. pool to keep both of us busy? I would potentially be working 3-3.5 days a week and he would be working the .5-1 day a week when I am not there. He currently works 3.5 days a week. Go with the statistical odds that you will resent the seller long term
January 15, 2018
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shortages) only going to get worse but not better now and in the foreseeable future... Yeah, just like lots of male dentist are real estate and hotel gurus and what to work part time Very hard and time consuming. Assuming you want to find one who will not depend on monthly base to take home healthy
July 16, 2024
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the hard way. What else the look out for? Red flag. Wants to hire you without ever meeting you? Someone is desperate to hire. And he's going to give you all the patients? Like all of them? I'd investigate with a healthy dose of skepticism.The stench of DSO . 30% of 0 is... My wife and I were
October 12, 2018
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that was diagnosed with Crohn's disease 3.5 years ago. She had her first bowel resection in January. Because of her age and our lack of specialists we traveled to LA for the surgery. Because she is relatively healthy now and is still able to participate in most outdoor activities, my wife and I feel that we
September 19, 2014
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adjustments) --Only participate with Delta Premier -Healthy Hygiene at $420,000 collected (after adjustments) started in mid-March ( 2 days / week) -Current Overhead is about 74% (excluding my compensation, otherwise it is about 80%) (VERY HIGH!!) -Owner owns 30% of building, we have option to buy
February 22, 2017
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built into the contract, or through statutory law that allows them to dictate the decisions of the partnership. Therefore, the minority partner is really nothing more than a glorified associate, surviving at the whims of the majority partner. In the end, it isn't a healthy relationship
June 30, 2025
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that if they buy at a 4-8x or even a 10x multiple, they can grow it to a 14-16x multiple - and that's good math. You get the right management team in place, and there's a clear path to very healthy levels of EBITDA. And given the risk of default is so low, it's not a bad bet from any PE firm if they find
January 14, 2020
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the hygienists up so I can outfit 2 rooms to my liking - I get shot down, because we all are so busy, and this is how we've done it for 30 years. Possible Solutions: 1. Suck it up Princess - get a hobby, go to work, do your job and keep your head down. I'm making good money, I'm healthy and I've got
October 11, 2018
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and participate w/ bcbs and ASR (our local hospital system w/ 6k employees) NO PPOs at all....we do take healthy kids (kids medicaid admin by delta)...and all these percentages being batted around are on a W2, not a 1099 right? So payroll taxes are being paid on top of this?Bump.
May 06, 2017
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ace.!At a healthy 64 years of age, in a nice location and a nice practice, that collects about $750,000 a year, 4 days a week, with 2 hygienists, an exceptional office manager and totally computerized, digital, and paperless with Dentrix/Dexis in a very nice large facility...............I realize I
November 06, 2016
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. I'm not the stand-in because the owner is too busy, and I'm not trying to convince a patient to see me for tx. I think it's ideal for the patients and for the success of the practice. And it makes for a healthy owner-associate relationship as well. Downside, of course, is that building the pt
June 07, 2015
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the option to purchase my stake later after several years. I can see this can be fair to both parties. First, The thought that as an associate they cannot get bank financing is a fallacy, if they can walk and chew gum at the same time they can qualify for a loan. Second, a practice that is only worth
May 28, 2025
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the only partner to do all the extra work since I work directly in the practice. Sorry. That sounds tough. How did you end up in this partnership? would love to know who your advisors were on this? Hello Jason. Are all dental lawyers equipped with helping clients formulate a successful, healthy
May 21, 2021
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podcasts for you. First off a practice doing1.5 million is on the high side and is a healthy practice even with a 30% overhead the owner Dr. is netting 500K which is close to three times the national average of $174, 850 for general dentist. When factoring all dentists including specialists
March 09, 2017
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further away from being able to retire. I'm 41 and I think about retirement quite a lot... probably more than is healthy, only because I think of all the ways this profession can blow up in your face. Nobody who has graduated more than 20 years ago has any sense of what new grads are up against as far
February 01, 2019
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for the FFS pts. Just guessingI would need to find out exact numbers, we just started taking Medicaid and HIP (Healthy Indiana Plan) earlier this year, so that patient base overall isn't that high. I would think adjustments would have to be made on a patient by patient basis, not lumping all
January 10, 2016
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a partnership on me.Don't do it. Get your back pay and go. If you partner with him it could likely be the worst financial mistake of your life ( I don't think I'm exaggerating much). That or buy the practice if it's healthy and you can decide whether or not to keep him. Probably best to leave though. get out
February 05, 2015
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some me time. Healthy to keep balanced. Sounds like your balance is off. Cut back, you won't regret it.You already know the right answer. You are a kid yourself. I would truly struggle if my son was not also my best friend. I chose to start my business later in life because my family is more
October 13, 2017
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fires me and sells the practice behind my back? Should the contract makethat impossible?Dad gum, this is what people are making? How do you even begin to spend that kind of money? Do you wake up everyday and say to yourself, Hmmm, Self, what can I buy today?I am walking away from an associate
October 24, 2018
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to grow a location so i can then hand off the built productive days to an associate day 1. If i just hired an associate, that would be putting 2 dentists in a one dentist practice and the associate would be taken advantage of. IE what you see happen all the time.A healthy practice in a non Medicaid
April 24, 2021
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experience so far doc and what your %? In the beginning HMO plans, paid a healthy amount for each patient to be on your roster. The idea was that one third of the patients would need nothing, the other third would not show up, and the other third would need something. So the plans actually worked
November 29, 2023
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altogether.But Im still here. So adding it all up, I guess this is where I am happiest. Right now.Thank you for bringing up the topic - we have disturbing tendencies in the health care system in general. Better stay healthy! New grad here. Decided to go rural with a production based position. Im loving
June 26, 2023
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of their cleaning today at no charge. We will bring them back to complete the cleaning while we do other procedures and they are numb.....I look right at them, and tell them while smiling, if I go after that tartar below your gums today while you are not numb, and you and I will not be friends
January 22, 2012
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this deal make sense now you are taking an extra 1k hit per month and have debt to pay on top of that. This may be the last straw, maybe time to move on. If you bail now how would they be able to recoup that insurance money? Do you have to have this insurance. If you are all healthy maybe
August 17, 2023
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practice? Does it have its own zipcode? lol I was reading dental town for advice on this. Hired my first, paying the same way, but getting 50+ NP a month. PPO/FFS healthy mix. First couple of months he is making 20k a month, produced over 100k adjusted first 30 days, but seems constantly unhappy
November 06, 2021
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interviews. That level of confidence is not healthy. Invincible ignorance is not good for the office. I think you can avoid this by living in an area where young folk want to live. Hip, vancouver, SF, LA, etc. Associates are a dime a dozen in those areas, and seem to be ok working for peanuts
March 02, 2022
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of this thread, you can voice your discontent with partnerships on every other thread, this is a thread for people who have done it right and what to share it with others that are contemplating on doing it right too.Ahh yea, someone brought up another key great thing about a healthy partnership
April 20, 2017
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to expand for me being there and the new price is 1,033,000. There is a very healthy new patient flow, good established hygiene, and enough work to keep us both busy for 4 days a week. This years projections are for us combined to do a little under 2M in collections. The overhead and expenses
August 28, 2016
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with a summer job and hang a shingle out of the gates. Yes, it was hard work I am sure but they built up their patient base slowly over time and within 5 years were making a decent income. Those days are gone. New grads need to make a healthy six figure salary just to service their debt out
August 19, 2016
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basically had them working off what they had just received. It never really made sense to me. June of this year, despite no family history, never smoking, drinking or doing drugs, healthy weight, regular exercise 5-6 days/week fairly intense, on just a regular physical check up, a concern
October 16, 2019
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