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4 articles
The Wrong Board: Why Dentists Optimize a Game They Never Chose to Play
Most dentists inherit their practice model — insurance contracts, real estate, associate hires — and optimize a game they never chose. Why that path builds a high-paying job, not the business an institutional buyer pays a real multiple for.
The Boutique Fallacy: Why Size Sets Your Dental Practice Value
Two dental practices, same profit, can sell millions apart. Why size — not margin — decides whether you get an SDE multiple or an institutional DSO/EBITDA exit.
Nonprofit for Taxes, For-Profit at the Top: The Hidden Fee Schedule Cliff in Your Practice Valuation
Delta Dental Premier status is tied to the provider, not the practice. When the selling dentist leaves, that fee schedule leaves with them — and a 30% revenue reduction on day one is a $420,000 swing in enterprise value at a 7x multiple.
The Trust Fracture: Why the Diagnostic Gray Zone is an Existential Threat to Your Practice
There is a quiet, highly destructive force eroding the enterprise value of the independent dental practice. It isn't inflation. It isn't staffing shortages. It is the total collapse of the modern pati.