You became a dentist.
Then somehow you became a CEO.

Now overhead keeps creeping, the front desk is turning over again, every decision still routes through you — and you couldn’t say what the practice would sell for. Nobody trained you for this part.

The Team

Your best producer wants equity. Now what?

The management questions to settle before that conversation gets awkward — standardization, autonomy, accountability, and who decides what.

The Money

Production is up. So why does payday still feel tight?

An owner-level read of production, collections, capacity and where the margin actually goes.

The Owner

Your practice had its best year ever. Why are you still exhausted?

Measure how much of your practice still runs through you.

Interactive tool

The Owner Dependence Audit

Do you own a business — or a very expensive job? Four steps, your own numbers, a scored answer, and the management moves that free the most owner hours in the next 90 days. Brokers and DSOs run this exact analysis on you during diligence. Run it on yourself first.

THE MONEY

Three numbers off your P&L. Use monthly averages from the last 3–6 months — the ratios matter more than the precision.

Monthly collections$Average monthly collections — the denominator for every ratio in this report.Your personal monthly production$Dentistry you personally produce per month, at collected value. This computes how much of the practice dies the day you stop drilling.Monthly overhead, excluding ALL owner compensation$All operating costs except every form of owner pay — salary, draws, and personal perks run through the practice. This is the base for the owner-adjusted EBITDA walk.

In this issue

The CEO Guide to Dental Practice GrowthA strategic framework for growing production without confusing activity with durable enterprise value.Dental Practice KPIs Owners Should UnderstandA practical owner-level view of production, collections, capacity, acquisition, retention, and profitability metrics.AI Strategy for Dental Practice OwnersHow owners can evaluate AI use cases across patient communication, operations, analytics, and clinical support.Operating a Multi-Location Dental GroupCore management questions for standardization, local autonomy, technology, accountability, and patient experience.How a CEO Should Evaluate Dental MarketingA business framework for judging marketing by patient economics, conversion, capacity, and strategic fit.Operator SpotlightQuarterly recognition for dentist-CEOs who run the practice like a business — published criteria, no fees, real evaluation.What Is a Dental Practice Worth?How dental practice valuations actually work — collections and EBITDA multiples, owner dependence, and what brokers look at — before you ever list a practice for sale.

You became a dentist.Then somehow you became a CEO.