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Featured Offerings
Earn-Out Trap Masterclass Bundle (Book + Calculator + Masterclass)
Everything you need to negotiate, protect, and maximize your DSO transaction — in one complete bundle. The Earn-Out Trap Complete Bundle brings together all three components of the DSO Transaction Series into a single program designed for dentists who are serious about their outcome.
$356.00 USD
Earn-Out Trap Bundle (Book + Calculator Suite)
Most dentists enter a DSO transaction with one number in mind: the offer. What they don't have is the knowledge to evaluate it — or the tools to model what they'll actually receive. This bundle changes that. The Earn-Out Trap is an 18-chapter plain-language guide to every material provision in a DSO deal. Adjusted EBITDA. Earn-out triggers. Rollover equity. Non-compete geography. Employment agreement terms. Each one explained in plain language, with real-world composite cases showing what goes wrong — and how to prevent it.
$59.00 USD
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 Earn-Out Trap Calculators
The Earn-Out Trap Calculator Suite Seven tools. One workbook. Complete financial clarity on your DSO transaction. The Calculator Suite is the analytical companion to The Earn-Out Trap — built for dentists who want to run their own numbers before sitting down at the table.
$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
Beyond the Bench Bundle (Book + Calculator)
Most dental laboratory books are written for technicians. This one is written for owners. Beyond the Bench is a 20-chapter operational blueprint covering identity and positioning, clean intake systems, digital infrastructure, people and knowledge architecture, financial operating systems, and growth and exit strategy. It is the manual that tells you not just what to build, but how to build it — and what it costs when you don't. The Calculator Suite is the implementation layer. Ten color-coded Excel calculators — Communication Tax, Cost-Per-Case, Pricing Architecture, Remake Tracker, 13-Week Cash Flow, Capacity Planner, Valuation Driver, and more — translate the book's frameworks into live numbers for your specific lab. Blue cells are inputs. Black cells are formulas. Zero errors. The book tells you where the gaps are. The calculators tell you what they're costing you.
$47.00 USD
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
The Associate Compensation Decoder Bundle (Book + Calculators)
The Associate Compensation Decoder is a 15-chapter, plain-language guide to reading, comparing, and negotiating any dental employment offer. It covers every compensation model, the payor mix variables that silently shape your income, what the contract red flags actually look like in writing, and the word-for-word scripts for the offer conversation itself. The 6-Tab Calculator Suite is the book in action. Enter your offer in Scenario A, a second in Scenario B, a third in Scenario C — the Comparison tab auto-populates the winner. Every formula calculates automatically. Includes the Offer Analyzer, three-scenario Comparison, Payor Mix Impact, Student Loan Reality Check, DSO vs. Private 5-Year Model, and a full Benchmarks tab with national reference ranges. Together, they close the information gap that costs new and early-career associates thousands of dollars a year in offers they didn't fully understand and negotiations they weren't prepared to have.
$47.00 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
The Complete Clinical Ladder Bundle
Stop buying strategy without the tools to execute it. The Complete Clinical Ladder Bundle pairs the full manuscript with the six-workbook Calculator Suite so you go from reading to running in the same week. The book shows you what to build. The calculators show you what it costs, what it saves, and how to track every assistant's progress in real time.
$51.00 USD
Other Available ProductsÂ
WHITE PAPER - Built to Last: The Engineering Case for Fully Hydraulic Dental Chairs
Why fully hydraulic systems outperform hybrid and electric alternatives on weight capacity, service life, noise, and total cost of ownership — and why the industry is quietly regressing toward inferior technology. Includes U.S. brand profiles for A-dec, Midmark, DCI Edge, Forest Dental, Belmont, and Firstar
Free
WHITE PAPER - Illuminating Excellence: Reflected LED Dental Lighting vs. Direct LED Dental Lighting
Most dental practices buy their operatory light based on how it looks on the showroom floor. This white paper shows you what to look at instead — LED engine count, reflector architecture, field uniformity, and the service cost data manufacturers don't put in the brochure. Twelve pages of independent analysis comparing DCI Edge, A-dec, Midmark, and Belmont across clinical performance, occupational health outcomes, and 10-year total cost of ownership. The light that costs less to buy is rarely the light that costs less to own.
Free
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.