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with bleeding. 2) Proper education of what is actually occurring: An infection of the soft tissues in your mouth that are causing or will cause the bone around your teeth to be lost. Just like cavities are an infection of the hard tissues like your teeth, your gums can get infected too. The bone loss
April 13, 2016
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in saturated areas. I would recommend buying an office which has healthy cash flow. May be hire a consultant like Sandy for 6 months to iron out HR issues. Many of these office, advertised by earnest brokers as " Jump Starts" have failed due to a reason. That reason is more than likely not the doctor. We over
February 24, 2026
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years old and have generally healthy dentition. I hate to say this but there is a certain type of patient which makes up a majority that is very hesitant to do anything besides what insurance will cover unless they are in pain.We accept all PPO insurances our rates are quite poor I think for example
February 01, 2022
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of procedures does the practice perform? How healthy is the income? How is the staff? What shape is the office in? Equipment? Among MANY others. If I were a dentist looking to own, I would start with a vision. What type of practice do you want? I would compare every practice I found to that vision
July 28, 2020
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start up costs? 3. What did you consider a healthy profit margin in year 1,2,3, etc 4. What was your cash flow/how was your P&L a full year from opening? Thanks so much! Hire a new business coach if you are paying someone who doesnt know the answers. Is the coach making you do what she is getting
November 11, 2022
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sprung a healthy branch to a tech/professional suburb over my almost 25 years in this locale. Good people that IMO better understand the value of hard work and feel that its important to compensate you as they want for their businesses.. I dont regret the move across country that created a great
July 05, 2022
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if cash flow is healthy. - SBA fees financed through the loan. option 2 - 5.5% 10 year fixed for 200k - 6.95% 25 year fixed for 1,100k - nothing down - no co-signer - SBA fees financed through the loan - no pre-payment penalty after the 3rd year. The 85K down on option 1 is do able, but would make me pucker up a bit. Please let me know your thoughts. Thank you If you can swing the down payment Option #1 is the one to go...
January 12, 2015
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://emergencydentistscarsdale.comI think it is. No hygiene or periodic exams of healthy patients. However, hygiene does provide referrals and future work. But I like emergencies, but not working late or on weekends. But there definitely is a place for...I will be watching this closely and see
May 04, 2015
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they havent created new habits for a more healthy lifestyle and need guidance, Shaughnessy said. I think its the next wave of where healthcare within retail could go. People who have experienced weight loss become more likely to join fit people who patronize wellness businesses, he said, and malls
March 14, 2025
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afternoon. Just kinda all hit me that its go time and we just don't know everything. Can we present finances? Can we even take money? I think so. Can we input healthy history, can I send a referral in the computer, or write an rx? These are all small things that will get worked out
April 10, 2016
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every 6 months in a healthy solo practitioner practice. How so? In my mind, you have one hygienist seeing 8 patients a day. Most practices are open 4 days a week. That is 32 patients a week. Comes out to be 768 patients every 6 months. Of course you want your patients to come back every 6 months
February 18, 2015
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an underserved area or you have a very healthy marketing budget, it usually means much slower growth. I'm sure it's something you've already considered but is a caution if you are wanting fast growth in the initial launch years. Best wishes on the new practice! Thanks for the reply Sandi! I am aware
December 13, 2021
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the wrong patients and left me utterly drained just a few years out of school. It was too hard to turn the tide and I lost a lot of business and got bad reviews when I tried to set healthy boundaries and charge appropriately. DO NOT UNDERVALUE YOURSELF - other people will do that enough for you. Never
December 22, 2025
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was $540k. You said buildout $250k, equipment $150k for a total of $400k. I'm not trying to tell you you're wrong. More so saying use healthy estimates for these things when doing your pro forma analysis if you don't have actual bids and quotes. If you overestimate and it still pencils out and comes
May 18, 2025
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a Saturday/month (8am-12pm) to only do Pedo exams. Alot of corporate offices employ this strategy as pedo exams can really gum up your schedule on a busy operative day. Good luck with your start up! Patients like early morning 8 am or so and after work 4 to 7 or so. The hardest to fill is 12 to 2. Reach out
December 14, 2016
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control without looking like a bad guy. I found a practice like that. bought it. Headache. Sold in 4 years for a healthy profit though. Found another one like that. Super demographics, guy can't sell. Set up my own new office in town and have been doing much better than if I had purchased
November 26, 2017
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Lord I hope those kids are mostly healthy. That much pedo is hell on Earth for me. While I was building the office I was working for a pedo group and seeing like 50-60 kids a day (only about 1/3 was tx) and I learned to be pretty efficient with kids. Most of the kids I see here are healthy
April 10, 2016
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payments to somebody to bring patients in, these patients tend to be less reliable and less dedicated to your office. You need to build up followers, when they talk about you to their neighbors or in their reading group, so you need 35s and up (hopefully a healthy mix of retired patients as well). 4
February 13, 2022
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buy in a good location with a healthy mix of ppo and ffs the patients will likely be good decent people. Theywill give you a chance and the few you lose will be offset by the new ones you bring in by being friendly and improving themarketing A profitable practice with good overhead that pays
April 16, 2017
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would also go for healthy TI Allowance (money the LL puts into your lease structure to help offset construction costs). Be sure to have an assignment clause so that if you decide to sell you can assign your negotiated terms to the new owner and get released as the guarantor of the lease. Double
February 08, 2023
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students in dental school tell me they listen to podcasts and read online and they are planning on owning multiple practices and growing an empire. I wish dentists were better at growing healthy, individually owned practices that are ready to mentor in a new owner at the right time. It is a win
March 16, 2022
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and a family. With limited cash flow you are going to stress the eff out. You can't invest, you can't do anything. But with a healthy practice...you can have a house...decent car...take kids out to nice places... You see my point. I'm totally against startups unless you have some super duper
July 13, 2018
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to be kept basic. They will care for the big deal stuff when they go back home. I have several of these in my area. They live close to where I practice and go up north for work a few weeks every season. They don't want root canals, they don't want gum surgery, and certainly no ortho, cause where
February 23, 2015
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August 20, 2015
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just be smooth sailing... and maybe that's not a bad thing. Healthy things grow, and growing things change to which I'll add that change can be hard. Heard that somewhere this past year and it stuck for me. I wouldn't change it, though. Anyhow, we are now up to 3.3 docs (we have a doc doing pedo
May 01, 2025
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. If it's a healthy patient then sometimes I will do the cleaning or bring over the hygienist if she has a break. The key to not get upset patients is to do something more than exam and X-rays. I'm definitely not a pro at this but being flexible has helped us see a ton of new patients since we opened
January 26, 2016
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needy demeanor rather than the software that killed it. Now, when my hygienist explains gum disease while she's taking x-rays and I give them a two-minute explanation later, it is much better. So, it is also the way we presented, not just the tool itself. When we were spending a lot of time
November 07, 2014
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is what I needed (a fast paced PPO environment would have worn me out in no time) that thanks to low overhead still creates a healthy take-home profit comparable to a larger PPO office. I think my office could be easily duplicated by others with the same priorities, with a few stipulations: 1. I am
February 08, 2024
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, so in a Medicaid office a slow mover would be producing little, while the same slow mover in a healthy PPO or FFS office would be more then fine. It depends on a lot of things I agree. How many hours a week, how much vacation/CE time off you take, what procedures you do, what insurances you take
September 15, 2015
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anything more than fillings and occasional single crowns, these specialists , if they get the chance, will tell patients: GP is NOT QUALIFIED to do: extractions, implant placement, gum surgery, full dentures, full mouth rehab. or anything else that the specialist does and does NOT want you to do. 11
February 08, 2016
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and more about specializing, specifically in endo, and I'll try to condense it down to three reasons. 1. I can excel at a handful of procedures. I currently do molar endo, implants, and some impacted 3rds. I feel like I've invested a healthy amount of time and resources into these specific procedures
September 17, 2025
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be, Can't you find a little area upstairs for the sterilization? I have a friend that put 2 ops upstairs in his attic for healthy hygiene patients. The patients didn't mind, but the staff HATED it going up and down all day. I love these rules. I have 10 ops in 2700 square feet. They're all small
June 12, 2015
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a practice with nothing but healthy patients; not a good deal. If on the other hand, there are huge amalgams, missing teeth, it is a potential gold mind IF you have good communication skills. Try and get owner financed as much as possible because then your success is vitally important to the seller
April 28, 2020
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, healthy, happy, motivated, blessed, I feel like energy level would not be a problem.... But, is the juice worth the squeeze, even if all is true and its a 250k salary versus a 500k salary, is that a big difference in the lifestyle generated considering the added time and stress involved (i kind of think
August 09, 2019
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$2100 adjusted production. patients like payment plans, I've got 2 now on 4 month financing. interested to see how that goes... but for now a dad gum down payment is better than an empty chair. I haven't seen a kid yet. I love kids. I've got 3 on the schedule for Thursday that I'm looking
May 04, 2016
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to insurance. Staff turnover is one of the few constants in private practice.According to dental intel, we collect $367/patient. All patients are new patients right now. Recalls are just starting. I assume that 367 number is low. Partly because of my tx planning, partly because we have a lot of young healthy
December 17, 2016
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at this. We're probably looking at $700-$800k to do this startup. Is that worth it to us? If we were to open ourselves up to relocation (we've considered AZ, NM, UT, front range CO etc) then we would be able to get a healthy, established practice for that price or not much over. The intellect says
September 17, 2024
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and only come in when something hurts. Technique is good, but sometimes patients are just cray cray! I actually never tell them what I'm doing. I usually say something to the affect of I'm just wiggling your cheek or I'm just massaging your gums and then afterwards they'll usually ask
November 08, 2015
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. Mattematics has got me trying to be all healthy ketoacidosis and working out and stuff and I wanna look like this dude. So there's that. not.... quite... quite... there yet. Thank man! I got my haircut today and though of you and then decided I'll never have your hair, which is sad I stopped
February 25, 2016
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at the wrong person. The OP is 100% nothing like you are describing.The $50k startup cost is compelling but I wouldn't let this have too much weight. At my office, my overhead expense makes any startup costs look like crumbs. My office has healthy overhead but it's always there where you can probably make
May 24, 2016
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honestly never knew anything about buying supplies, or watching overhead. Sometimes when I'm daydreaming at my regular job I think about what If I open a bigger center like this one. I know I can do better. Currently at my regular job we see Maryland Healthy Smiles kids and I average 3500 per day
May 02, 2015
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recovering even though I've cut back to 2 full and 2 half days. Finding healthy coping mechanisms is hard. I think you've found the right resources though. For all those gun-ho dental students out there (that was me), take note. This is the real story of being successful in dentistry.Trent. A couple
October 29, 2016
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, healthy finances. I could not work for 2 years and change nothing. I know all of thats nothing to brag about, but the idea is that I have a nice cushion to startup on and I can move easily. Work for a great guy, signed nondisclosure so wont disclose details but ownership is an option but not full
January 07, 2018
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look? Have your wisdom teeth be removed? Any problems with your gums bleeding when you brush, floss, or use toothpaste? This format may vary for each dentist. However, the interview SHOULD NOT BE DELEGATED to a staff member. For further information consult the lean and mean audio and video series
August 26, 2023
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. It's a little bitter sweet, but a long time coming. Burning the candle on both ends isn't healthy. Now I can go to 4 clinical days a week and 1-2 non-clinical days a week where I work on the business. Hopefully can start to regain some of my weekends. I went on a nice 30 minute walk with my wife
October 07, 2019
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says it does. Podium. Makes reviews easy. Not sure if we'll keep it going after we get busy. It's 4k a year after all. Clinpro sealant; Zooby prophy paste (happy hippo cake and bubble gum; chocolate and mint aren't nearly as popular) Prophy Magic's electric prophy angle (not as nice as the NuPro
April 06, 2019
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