A dental practice is financially ready to drop PPOs when demand exceeds capacity, meaning the schedule stays full without needing insurance volume to fill it. The decision comes down to three numbers: what percentage of collections comes from insurance, the average write-off per crown, and whether new patient flow is insurance-driven or relationship-driven. When those… Read more »
Posts Categorized: dental practice growth
How Do You Calculate Your Daily Production Goal as a Dentist?
Your daily production goal isn’t a number you guess. It’s a number you build, starting from the life you actually want, then working backwards through retirement contributions, taxes, and practice overhead until you land on the exact dollar amount your chair needs to produce each day. Most dentists get this completely backwards. They start with… Read more »
Dental Success Today vs. Scheduling Institute | Honest Comparison for Dentists
If you found this page, you are probably somewhere in the middle of a decision. Maybe you have already been through a program with The Scheduling Institute and something felt off. Maybe you are researching options before committing to anything. Either way, you deserve a straight answer, not a sales pitch dressed up as a… Read more »
The Garden of Prosperity: Why Your Practice Is Growing Exactly What You Planted
I’m going to tell you something most dentists never figure out in their entire career: Your practice is a garden and right now it’s growing exactly what you planted. If you love what you’re looking at (the patients, the cases, the schedule, the profit, the life you’re living) then congratulations. You’ve been planting the right… Read more »
The Power of Presence
Most doctors are working too hard for what they’re getting. Not because they aren’t skilled. Not because they don’t care. But because they’re not present where it matters most. You can’t lead what you don’t live. If you’re showing up to your practice with your body but not your mind, you’re shortchanging every opportunity for difference-making profit,… Read more »

