Dental Staff Retention: How to Keep the Team That Keeps Your Practice Running

by Kamyar Shah | May 15, 2026 | Dental Office

Dental staff turnover is one of the most operationally disruptive and financially costly problems in private practice dentistry. Replacing a dental assistant costs $8,000–$15,000 in recruiting, onboarding, and lost productivity. Replacing a hygienist can cost...

Dental Associate to Practice Owner: A Guide to the Transition

by Kamyar Shah | May 15, 2026 | Dental Office

Dental associate to owner is one of the most financially significant career transitions a dentist makes — and one of the least supported operationally. Dental school prepares clinicians, not business owners. Associates typically make the transition with limited...

Dental Practice Profitability: Benchmarks, Overhead, and the Collections Discipline

by Kamyar Shah | May 15, 2026 | Dental Office

Dental practice profitability is determined by a relatively small number of operational variables, but most practice owners don’t track them with enough specificity to know where their margin is actually going. A practice can have strong production numbers and...

How to Grow a Dental Practice: A System That Compounds

by Kamyar Shah | May 15, 2026 | Dental Office

Growing a dental practice requires a different strategy than the one that filled your schedule in the first few years. Word of mouth and insurance panel placement sustain early growth, but they have a ceiling. Practices that break past $1.5M–$2M in production and...

Medical Practice Profitability: Revenue Cycle, Overhead, and the Levers That Matter

by Kamyar Shah | May 15, 2026 | Healthcare

Medical practice profitability is not determined primarily by clinical volume. It is determined by the efficiency of revenue capture, the structure of overhead, and the operational systems that allow a practice to treat more patients with fewer administrative...