Dental Success Insights

10th Annual Dental Success Summit

February 7, 2023

Drumroll Please…. I am excited to announce that registration is now open for the 10th Annual Dental Success Summit, scheduled for June 15th – 17th, 2023, at the beautiful La Cantera Resort & Spa in San Antonio, TX!!! We are rewarding our early action takers by offering Super Early Bird Ticket Prices at 55% off […]

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New Front Office Book!

January 31, 2023

A New Hope Recently we published the 6th book in the Dental Success Manual Series: The Front Office Manual. This book is packed with the best systems to help run your front office and it all comes from my interactions with doctors and our constant pain-points of not knowing how to adequately coach and train […]

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Dental Practice: Core Values

January 24, 2023

The Values We Want Sometimes when people come into the coaching at the Dental Success Institute’s Elite Mastermind, we ask them some “fluffy” questions. Here’s a couple of them: Do you have core values? Do you routinely evaluate employees upon core values? Now, most people who have worked through their business plan have a good […]

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Dental Practice: 7 Ingredients for WOW Service

January 17, 2023

The Recipe for Success Transform your dental practice front desk into patient pros. Keep your practice healthy by knowing your numbers, enhancing your team’s customer service skills, and turning more callers into happy and healthy patients. Check out the seven easy steps below to deliver exceptional patient service: #1 CUSTOMER OBSESSION! Be obsessed with providing […]

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Dental Practice: PPOs vs OPPs?

January 10, 2023

The Treadmill World We live in a world addicted to consumerism and thinly-veiled desires luring precious discretionary dollars out of the wallet. As for investing in one’s health, society somehow has digressed into a mechanized, commoditized, and subsidized mindset. Leverage assumed by the omnipresent insurance plan often renders a provider with little say regarding the […]

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Dental Practice: Value Add Acquisitions

January 3, 2023

Finding Diamonds A term that I was introduced to when I first started to explore practice ownership was this idea of a “value add practice.” I view these opportunities as diamonds in the rough. For example: an aged practice where the cost to enter is low, but cash flows are also less than ideal. Now, […]

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Dental Practice: Cost of Implant Failure

December 27, 2022

What If? Recently my friend Dr. Scott Froum, renowned Periodontist, called me up and asked me, “Have you ever calculated the cost of what happens when an implant fails?” Now I’ve calculated a lot of things, including costs of procedures, costs of build outs, and the return-on-investment for marketing, but the cost of our dentistry […]

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It’s a good year to be ‘Tax-Wise’ – 9 Quick Tips

December 20, 2022

A Year in Review In 2022 we’ve seen rising costs in all aspects of business and life due to inflation. While those increasing costs will undoubtedly have an effect on your bottom line, there are plenty of opportunities to adjust your 2022 tax filing to reduce the amount you’ll have to pay in a year […]

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The Plus Side of PPOs

December 13, 2022

A Year in Review With the year coming to an end, something I have looked back on this year with excitement is a more positive view of being a PPO office. A shocking statement, I know. We have been heavy PPO since the start, almost 8 years ago. Over the last 5 we have slowly […]

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Dentistry’s Largest Cover Up…

December 6, 2022

The Secret US News and World Report list dentistry as being one of the top professions to get into based on the number of hours worked and the paycheck dentists bring home. In addition banks are tripping over themselves to lend dentists money because the default rate on a dental related loan is less than […]

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