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By Dental Strategy Institute | June 2026 | 8-Minute Read | For DSO Operators and Group Practice Leaders
The DSO model had a run in the early 2020s that looked, in retrospect, like a period where almost anything worked. Low interest rates made debt cheap. Private equity was aggressive. Multiples exp...
By Dental Strategy Institute | June 2026 | 7-Minute Read
The average retirement age for U.S. dentists is now 68.7 years. One third of dental assistants and one third of dental hygienists expect to retire within five years. Several states have more than 40% of their active dentists aged 55 or olde...
By Dental Strategy Institute | June 2026 | 8-Minute Read
President Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" has received extensive coverage for its immigration and tax provisions. Its impact on dental practices has received comparatively little — which is a problem, because the implications for pract...
By Dental Strategy Institute | June 2026 | 8-Minute Read
If you are a dental practice owner and you are not maximizing a retirement plan designed specifically for business owners, you are paying more in taxes than you need to. There is no more accurate way to say it.
The SEP IRA—Simplified Emplo...
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...
By Dental Strategy Institute | June 2026 | 8-Minute Read
When you search for the value of a used car, you go to Kelley Blue Book. There is a universally accepted reference point. The market has a number. Everyone — buyer, seller, insurer, lender — consults the same source, and transactions happen...
By Dental Strategy Institute | June 2026 | 7-Minute Read Right now, in the summer of 2026, demand for dental practices is high and supply is low. DSOs are hungry. Sixty-nine percent of them expect to increase their acquisition activity this year, and many report relying more heavily on brokers beca...
By Dental Strategy Institute | June 2026 | 7-Minute Read
Most conversations about retirement benefits in dentistry focus on what the practice has to build, fund, and administer. That is the right conversation—and it is one DSI covers extensively. But a new executive order signed on April 30, 2026...
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 ...
Let me tell you how most used dental equipment pricing works in a practice sale.
The buyer's team walks through the operatories. They take notes. They go back to the office and apply rough age-based estimates to the equipment list — numbers drawn from a dealer rep's memory and whatever feels right ...
Here's how equipment capital planning works in most dental groups: a chair breaks at Location 7. Someone calls the service company. The service company comes out and says the pump motor is gone. The office manager calls the regional director. The regional director calls the CFO. The CFO asks why thi...