Most dentists know their PPO write-off rate is high. Few know exactly which plans are the worst offenders, what it's actually costing them in annual dollars, and what would realistically happen to their revenue if they dropped one.

That's not a knowledge problem — it's a data problem. The analysis ...

The hygienist shortage is the most discussed operational problem in dentistry right now. But the conversation almost always focuses on hiring — finding hygienists, paying them more, offering better schedules.

What gets talked about less is the math of what unfilled hygiene capacity actually costs yo...

Every dental practice owner asks some version of the same question: How are we actually doing?

Not gut feeling. Not "we had a good month." Real numbers compared to real peers.

The problem is that until now, there hasn't been an independent, practice-level benchmark for dentistry. You've had your a...

By Dental Strategy Institute | June 2026 | 7-Minute Read

The 2026 Dentalpost Dental Salary Survey found something that should concern every practice owner and DSO operator reading this: dental assistants are the only dental professional group where satisfaction declined across every single measur...

Every equipment manufacturer ships their product with a recommended maintenance schedule. It's in the manual. The manual lives in the filing cabinet. The filing cabinet hasn't been opened in three years.

That's not unusual. It's the default state of dental practice maintenance management — and it's...

At some point in almost every dental practice sale, someone asks: can you give us a list of all the equipment?

The seller goes to the office manager. The office manager pulls up whatever they have — maybe a list from the last equipment finance application, maybe a service contract from a few years ...