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not have hospital call rooms, but we have PPOs, no-shows, staffing shortages, insurance games, angry patients, impossible schedules, hygiene chaos, OSHA, HIPAA, Google reviews, payroll, broken chairs, supply reps, team drama, and a front desk trying to explain why the crown is not 'free' even though
May 28, 2026
Practice / Family Management for Women Dentists
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I have a 22 year old practice. Things have been slower this year. My manager since March this year wants me to hire someone to do insurance verification and work on recall. She says in the past my employees were not verifying as accurately and we need a full time person to work on this. I already
December 28, 2017
Practice / Family Management for Women Dentists
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is not neat or tidy. It is a wet-fingered, high-speed, emotionally loaded, insurance-soaked, staff-dependent, patient-facing business where one missed expectation can turn a decent procedure into a complaint. So before we turn gender into another dental food fight, we need to separate signal from noise
April 23, 2026
Practice / Family Management for Women Dentists
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, I personally have been very reluctant to return. For a few reasons: my long term trusted baby sitter moved. My workplace (a large corporate/CA) has guidelines for our protection which are nothing short of complete denial of existence of COVID: NO extra precautions other than N95 for a KNOWN case
September 03, 2020
Practice / Family Management for Women Dentists
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Hello Everyone, I am a female dentist in my early forties who is trying to juggle activities of 3 elementary age children and running a low volume (take a couple of insurances) sedation dentistrysolo practice. I keep the volume low because I need to have the time to take care of my three kids
July 22, 2017
Practice / Family Management for Women Dentists
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fees. For all my associates, the % of collections is paid once we receive BOTH patient AND insurance payments. This avoids having to deduct money from associate's pay if insurance over pays or if patient changes their mind. The problem with this is that as you all know, insurance is taking about 40
July 15, 2017
Practice / Family Management for Women Dentists
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March 27, 2026
Practice / Family Management for Women Dentists
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Hi ladies. I just bought a practice 6 months ago. It's mostly insurance based and I have 2 hygienists who aren't even remotely producing twice as much as they're being paid, let alone 3x their salary. I'm at the point where I am honestly thinking of doing my own hygiene, tacking
May 22, 2022
Practice / Family Management for Women Dentists
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are my other options that does not involve clinical dentistry? Do they need dentists in companies that make dental products, instruments? If so, how does one get a job like that and what is required education/experience wise? What about insurance companies? Anything else? I am not looking to make
April 01, 2025
Practice / Family Management for Women Dentists
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with insurances, assuming I do??? I believe she is already credentialed through her other office with most of my insurances but am thinking I need to add her on at our office too? Any info would be greatly appreciated!!!!!! Thanks! I see this is an old post but incase anyone else wants to know what I did
May 29, 2014
Practice / Family Management for Women Dentists
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the patient to drink a fifth of whiskey and do a few whip-its from a can of Whipped Cream. At this point I will walk the spouse through the process of extracting the tooth - usually with a flat ended screwdriver. No risk whatsoever!! In fact, since I've started doing this my malpractice insurance has
January 16, 2021
Practice / Family Management for Women Dentists
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. There's a labour shortage in dentistry. She will collect E.I. You want to top up her pay too? You do not need to pay her anything. The government has been taking a share of her pay for unemployment insurance, and she will be entitled to up to 70% of her pay, depending on the province. There are rules
May 06, 2025
Practice / Family Management for Women Dentists
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house so my wife could still do OM duties from home and even answer our office phone from home. She pays all the bills, runs pay-roll, reviews EODs for errors, puts insurance checks into our PMS, manages my PPOs to make sure we are getting the best fees and negotiates fees as needed, handles
August 19, 2025
Practice / Family Management for Women Dentists
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would look into short term disability insurance through aflac. Theres a 10 month waiting period for pregnancy pay out so you cant be pregnant when you apply but itsa nice supplement to your income feel free to PM me if you want to talk more Just be prepared to spend lots, make less, sleep less
March 15, 2022
Practice / Family Management for Women Dentists
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of finding you! Best of luck! There are so many pros to taking a job versus trying to buy a practice. Not every company is the same but most would be able to offer you a good salary, full benefits, retirement, paid vacation, malpractice insurance, etc. On top of that, you don't have to be bothered with administrative and human resources...
August 28, 2017
Practice / Family Management for Women Dentists
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to what Tommy has...no tons of staff for drama...cash up front but will file insurance. You have to really want it in you to own. I am not the owner, but my father is, but I do most of the practice management stuff. I am never free...never....I get calls about stupid office $hit while I am on vacation
January 21, 2021
Practice / Family Management for Women Dentists
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hurt, myself included. So I guess the smart thing is to proceed with caution. Unfortunately, yes, The stories I could tell you. Do your best to keep business, friends and family separate otherwise make sure your medical insurance covers lobotomies. Fire everyone and start fresh. JK. However
October 25, 2016
Practice / Family Management for Women Dentists
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NOT recommend that. Having kids is for young folks. :)In public health, I receive paid vacation, paid sick time, health insurance, loan repayment,retirement, paid CE I received none of those being an associate in pp. Something to think about.. Before going into ph and before having my son, i
August 22, 2016
Practice / Family Management for Women Dentists
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way I want, I would want to work three days a week and make enough to just pay the bills and eat at this point. I would want a small office, that seems more my style. To anyone that has responded... if you don't mind me asking. What is your office? Fee for service? Insurance? A mix of all? Thank you
October 15, 2014
Practice / Family Management for Women Dentists
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off the last names and not checking the first names. Truly its a personal decision. I hope the wedding went well and Congratulations! :) YES! Just worked with a client that was having problems with getting insurance paid correctly. Some payers have problems with hyphenated names. If you
August 08, 2016
Practice / Family Management for Women Dentists
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think FFS is less its mainly PPO looks like from difference between production and adjusted production which is very close to collection. he takes only 3 PPO insurance. Location i is not very bad and not very good, its in Strip mall on busy road. signage is not good. Thanks Sounds like you already work
February 18, 2020
Practice / Family Management for Women Dentists
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an attending in residency who did this kind of stuff and I can tell you he's now being investigated by the insurance companies. Is it worth it??? It's not worth it to me. I usually will book a couple of extractions in an hour or a couple of restorations in an hour. SRP probably two quadrants in an hour
October 12, 2014
Practice / Family Management for Women Dentists
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to make sure you have adequate liability insurance coverage for the premises. It's unlikely that an existing policy would provider coverage for the size of the childcare/play area you are considering. Another tactic might be to check with local providers of child services, and see if they might
August 02, 2022
Practice / Family Management for Women Dentists
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I lost, her husband got a brain tumor and was given 6 months to live, he lived 14 months, she still comes around, but is not working and doesn't want to come back to work, Yet, as she is still living off the insurance) Learn how to put a rubber dam on by yourself. Eliminate the spit and tongue. Get
September 09, 2019
Practice / Family Management for Women Dentists
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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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supplements that, of course, they could only buy from him. His business fell apart. He used to be FFS, now he takes every insurance under the sun. Patients see through this salesmanship. They aren't dumb. I don't even sell OTC whitening or Oral-B or Sonicare toothbrushes anymore because you can get all
September 18, 2017
Practice / Family Management for Women Dentists
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or injured in some way in the office. Or what if they get sick with something unusual and employee blames office exposure. I suppose there is insurance you could buy for protection, but that's just a risk I would be unwilling to take.Anything can happen - and risks should be mitigated. So what do you
February 03, 2017
Practice / Family Management for Women Dentists
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for the dentists graduating today with the tremendous debt and the pressure of DSO's and insurance companies. My advice is to make sure your life is balanced with work, home and friends.MarkThis gig only worth it if you can manage to work full time and get the most (financial) out of it Quite a few of my
January 17, 2019
Practice / Family Management for Women Dentists
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time as me. She signed up for many many insurance plans including HMOs and it brings people in. The biggest differences between us is she had been working for a few years longer than me (negligible) and she has 5 kids (OMG I have no idea how she did it). She does have 2 associates and among the 3
February 26, 2016
Practice / Family Management for Women Dentists
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