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The short answer: leadership in a dental practice is mostly clarity plus consistency. Your team needs to know what winning looks like this week, who owns what, and that the standard applies to you too. Practices with strong cultures aren't the ones with the best mission statement on the wall — they'...
By Pete Volk, founder of Dental Strategy Institute, with clinical review by Susan Volk, RDH.
If you've caught yourself wondering how many more years your body can do this, you're not being dramatic and you're not alone. The neck, the shoulders, the wrists, the sheer sameness of the schedule — those...
By Pete Volk, founder of Dental Strategy Institute, with clinical review by Susan Volk, RDH.
There's a number you've probably run in your head on the drive home — what this actually adds up to over a career, and whether it ever really changes. Most hygienists never get an honest answer, because the...
"Are we paying market rate?" is the most frequently asked compensation question in dental practice management — and it's almost never answered with real data.
Most practice owners rely on what their study club says, what a hygienist told them they made at their last job, or a LinkedIn comment from 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...
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...