How should you determine the right staff complement for your office? When is it time to add a new position instead of making do with what you’ve got? These are important questions to ask because over-hiring can make your overhead go out of control, but on the flip-side, refusing to hire needed positions as you grow will cap your growth…
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 17th, 2025 at 07:44 pm As the Director of Practical Application here at MGE, I work with our clients and office managers on a daily basis. A big issue—especially with new clients—is personnel—specifically how to find good employees. While there is quite a bit to this subject, the four most common, yet easy to fix mistakes…
Last updated on November 13th, 2025 at 03:50 pm A common theme when you read articles about the “Business of Dentistry” is that our dental schools do not prepare us for the business side of practicing. I certainly found that to be the truth, and that is why MGE: Management Experts, Inc. exists: to give doctors the education they need…
The New Year is here and we all know what that means—time to make resolutions. Everyone wants the coming year to be “the” year in which they finally make that change, achieve that specific objective, start making the big bucks, or make good on old promises to themselves. But despite the sincerity of these dreams, for many, the coming year…