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5 Common Mistakes Dentists Make as Business Owners

Mar 2nd, 2022

Last updated on November 3rd, 2025 at 02:44 pm All dental practice owners wear two “hats.” One is the clinician hat and the other is the business owner hat. And once you open your own practice, you quickly learn that the vast majority of the stress and problems come from the business owner side! So, in this post, I want…

Leadership

6 Ways to Be a Better Dental Practice Owner

by Power Client Manager Department

Dec 1st, 2021

Most dentists I speak with realized at a certain point in their career (usually within 2 or 3 years of owning a practice) that they are more of a business owner than they are a dentist. So you essentially wear two “hats”: a clinician hat and an executive hat. And the “executive hat” is where most of the problems and…

Overhead and Profitability

Is Your Dental Practice Overhead Too High?

by Sabri Blumberg

Jan 17th, 2018

Last updated on November 17th, 2025 at 01:18 pm In this week’s post, I wanted to touch on a question I get a lot: “How do I know if my overhead is too high?” It’s an important question. Overhead has everything to do with your office’s financial health and profitability. In order to answer this intelligently, let’s first take a…

Practice Management

Practice Management: The Secret to a Successful Business

by Jeffrey M. Blumberg

Nov 29th, 2017

Last updated on November 18th, 2025 at 08:24 pm “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” — Leonardo da Vinci Just because there is a lot to know about management, does not make it a “complex” subject. It really isn’t. For that matter, when addressing a business (or really any) issue, if I find the “solution” to be too “complex”—I know I’m…

Overhead and Profitability

Fee Schedules – What Should You Charge?

by Gregory A. Winteregg, DDS

Feb 8th, 2017

Last updated on November 12th, 2025 at 01:34 pm What should you be charging for your services? It’s a question we ask ourselves at a number of points in our career. And when it comes to how much you should charge, what “percentile” you should be in, etc. it’s one of those things that don’t have an exact “this is…

Practice Management

Fixing a Broken Area of Your Business

by Jeffrey M. Blumberg

Jan 11th, 2017

Last updated on November 11th, 2025 at 11:42 pm In quite a few of the articles Sabri and I have written, we’ve hit on how “change” can negatively impact your practice, crash statistics just plain wreck an area of an organization. Simple things like changing your marketing, staff functions, new office policies, etc. can inadvertently bring about disaster—even though they…

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