If you’re doing things right, your business should be growing. While expansion and growth can be desirable, it can also carry along with it a slew of new challenges (or headaches). For a dentist (or other health care practitioner), a growing practice eventually translates into more staff and providers (associate doctors or possibly partners). Many things can “derail” during expansion…
These last four years I’ve traveled across the Continental US presenting seminars to my peers and their staff. All in all, these “road trips” provided the opportunity to meet and/or lecture to close to 4,000 dentists (about 2.5% of the profession). While frequent travel can be taxing, I don’t think that anything short of this would have given me the…
Last updated on November 5th, 2025 at 12:03 pm I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard that! We go to dental school, rack up lots of debt, open a practice, rack up lots more debt and do more and more continuing education. All for the privilege of being able to: argue with insurance companies, worry about paying the…
Last updated on November 6th, 2025 at 03:36 pm What am I going to do? In 1992, after eleven years in my dental practice, I was asking myself this very question. My practice was in a strip mall and the supermarket moved out. The foot traffic left with it. New patients dropped to fewer than 10 per month and collections…
Last updated on November 10th, 2025 at 04:55 pm This article is the fifth and final installment on how to increase practice profitability and manage overhead. To view the first four parts, please go to: Managing Your Overhead and Profitability, Part I, What is Your Overhead? Managing Your Overhead and Profitability, Part II, Overhead Guidelines Managing Your Overhead and Profitability,…
Last updated on November 10th, 2025 at 02:43 pm By Jeffrey M. Blumberg, COO, MGE “This article is part four of a five-part series on how to increase practice profitability and manage overhead. To view the first three parts, please go to: Managing Your Overhead and Profitability, Part I, What is Your Overhead? Managing Your Overhead and Profitability, Part II,…