by Kamyar Shah | May 15, 2026 | Dental Office
Acquiring a dental practice is the most common path to ownership for dentists who want an established patient base and immediate cash flow rather than a de novo startup. Done well, a dental practice acquisition is one of the most reliable investments in professional...
by Kamyar Shah | May 15, 2026 | Dental Office
Dental practice KPIs — key performance indicators — are the metrics that tell you whether your practice is performing at its potential or leaving production, revenue, and patient relationships on the table. Most practice owners review their monthly production number...
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...
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...
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...
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...
by Kamyar Shah | Apr 23, 2026 | Dental Office
Dental practice inefficiencies rarely announce themselves. A collection rate that has drifted from 97 percent to 91 percent over 18 months does not produce a single moment of crisis — it produces a $72,000 annual revenue shortfall on a $1.2 million practice that the...
by Kamyar Shah | Apr 13, 2026 | Dental Office
A dental practice can produce outstanding clinical work and still underperform financially. Production numbers that look strong at the end of the month become disappointing when collections are calculated. A full schedule becomes a revenue shortfall when same-day...
by Kamyar Shah | Feb 26, 2026 | Dental Office
There are two types of decisions in dental practice ownership. The first type are operational decisions — scheduling, billing, team management, patient experience — that are made daily and whose impact is measured in monthly performance. The second type are strategic...
