THE DSI CATALOG
Books & Guides
Plain-language business intelligence for dental professionals — written by someone who has lived the problems. Every title is available in PDF. Print and Kindle versions are coming soon.
DSO STRATEGY, OPERATIONS & EXIT
THE EARN-OUT TRAP
The earn-out structures, EBITDA mechanics, and employment agreement clauses that DSO sellers agree to without understanding — and what it costs them.
$59.00 USD
The DSO Operating System
The complete operational blueprint for multi-location dental group leaders who are done improvising at scale. Most dental groups don't plateau because they stop growing. They plateau because they never built the infrastructure that growth demands — the SOPs nobody follows, the billing operation that can't keep up, the org chart that made sense at five locations and falls apart at fifteen. This book fixes that.
$49.00 USD
Beyond the Bench - The Operational Blueprint for Building a Dental Lab That Runs Without You
Whether you are trying to land your first DSO account, eliminate the daily production fire drill, understand what your lab is actually worth, or simply take a two-week vacation without your phone, Beyond the Bench gives you the blueprint. Every chapter includes the tools to implement it — not just the concepts. It gives lab owners the frameworks, assessments, and implementation tools they need to move from operator to CEO of their own business.
$37.00 USD
The Insurance-Free Practice
You built a practice. An insurance company is running it. This book gives you the complete playbook to change that — how to calculate what PPO participation is truly costing you, design an in-house membership plan your patients will actually join, exit your insurance contracts without losing the patients you want to keep, and build a practice that collects 95 cents on every dollar instead of 65.
$39.00 USD
The Clinical Ladder
Dental assistant turnover is costing your practice more than you think. The recruitment fees, the 90-day ramp-up drag, the production loss, the culture erosion — it adds up fast, and most practice owners are absorbing it silently without a system to stop it. The Clinical Ladder changes that. Built across 13 chapters and four parts, this framework gives practice owners, DSO operators, and clinical leaders a complete, battle-tested architecture for transforming dental assisting from a job into a profession. The four-tier progression — Foundation, Clinical Contributor, Expanded Function Specialist, and Strategic Leader — ties compensation to competency, replaces vague annual reviews with quarterly growth conversations, and gives every assistant on your team a career path worth staying for.
$37.00 USD
Dental Office Valuation & Appraisal
Every dentist gets a number eventually. It arrives in a DSO's letter of intent, a broker's offhand estimate, or an accountant's rough guess at year-end — and most owners have no idea whether it's fair, because no one ever taught them how the number gets built. That gap, between what a practice could sell for and what it actually sells for, is exactly what this book closes. Your Practice, Your Price is the independent, dentist-to-dentist guide to valuing and selling the most valuable asset you own. It walks through how practices are really valued — EBITDA multiples, add-backs, and the three-approach appraisal buyers actually use — and then does something no other book on the shelf does: it organizes the entire sale around who's buying. Selling to a DSO is a different game than selling to an associate, a new graduate, or a private buyer, and each path carries its own deal structures, tax consequences, and traps. You'll get a 36-month pre-sale roadmap, a plain-English breakdown of earn-outs and rollover equity (the terms that quietly cost sellers the most), a financial-audit checklist, and guidance for specialty and multi-location sales. What sets it apart is who wrote it. Pete Volk spent 25 years on the business side of dentistry — around the practices, the operators, and the deals — and he doesn't collect a commission when you sell. No broker's agenda, no buyer to please. Just the frameworks, the real numbers, and an honest read on a transaction you'll probably go through only once. If your practice is the biggest financial decision of your career, this is the book to read before you sign, not after.
$39.00 USD
ASSOCIATE DENTIST CAREER TRACK
The Associate Compensation Decoder
THIS BOOK IS FOR YOU IF: You're a new or early-career associate dentist evaluating your first — or next — employment offer. You've looked at a contract and weren't sure what you were reading. You've accepted "thirty percent of production" and never fully understood what that meant for your paycheck. You want to negotiate but don't want to guess.
$47.00 USD
DENTAL HYGIENE CAREER TRACK
Myofunctional Therapy as a Career
How dental hygienists can build a thriving myofunctional therapy practice — from choosing the right certification to pricing, marketing, and building a sustainable caseload.
$29.00 USD
Available in Three Formats
Every DSI title is available as a PDF download, print-on-demand, and Kindle edition
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