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The Independent Dental Practices Building Better Patient Experiences
Six offices, six different bets. What links them is not size or ownership but a willingness to redesign the schedule around a single friction point and absorb the cost.
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Inside the New Generation of Modern Dental Practices
The offices opening now look different from the ones that opened a decade ago — and the differences are mostly in the floor plan, the staffing model, and the lease.
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Private Equity’s Grip on Dentistry Is Loosening in Unexpected Places
Consolidation has not stopped. But the buyers have gotten pickier, the multiples have compressed, and a growing number of sellers are finding that the exit they planned for is no longer on offer.
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The Hygienist Shortage Is Rewriting the Economics of the Operatory
Practices that cannot hire hygienists are not simply seeing fewer patients. They are quietly restructuring what a dental visit is, and some of the changes are unlikely to reverse.
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Why More Dentists Are Buying Their Buildings
Practice real estate has become the quiet centerpiece of dental retirement planning — and, for some owners, the only part of the transaction that behaved as expected.
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Dental Schools Are Quietly Redesigning the First Two Years
Several programs have begun moving clinical contact earlier and compressing the basic-science sequence. The change is less about pedagogy than about who is still willing to enroll.
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The Quiet Return of the Solo Practice
Solo ownership was supposed to be finished. A cohort of dentists in their thirties is choosing it anyway, and their reasoning has less to do with independence than with arithmetic.
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Six States Are Weighing Dental Insurance Reform. Practices Are Paying Attention.
The bills differ in scope but converge on the same three provisions — and on a disagreement about who should be allowed to decide what a covered service is worth.
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Rural Dentistry’s Access Problem Has a Staffing Answer
Programs that recruit dentists to underserved counties have a persistent retention problem. The practices that keep people are solving for a different variable entirely.