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When Should I Prepare for the Sale of My Dental Practice?

 Preparing for the sale of your dental practice can be a long and complicated process. There are many factors...READ MORE

Tips for Getting Your Dental Practice Ready for Sale

 Preparing your dental practice for sale can be an extremely daunting task. While you are navigating this process, there...READ MORE

Top 5 Mistakes Doctors Make When Selling Their Dental Practice

 Selling a dental practice is one of the biggest financial decisions a dentist will make in their career. Like...READ MORE

Goodwill in Dental Practice Transitions

 Goodwill in a dental practice can be difficult to measure. How do you put a number on patient relationships,...READ MORE

Writing a Transition Letter to Your Patients

 In most states, when you sell a dental practice, you are required to notify your patients of the sale...READ MORE

Navigating the DSO Market

 A DSO, or a dental service organization, provides business services for dental practices. Management practices like bookkeeping, marketing, and...READ MORE

When to Sell Your Dental Practice

 One of the most common questions we get is, “When should I sell my dental practice?”  It’s understandable that...READ MORE

Is Your Practice HIPAA Compliant?

 Download Our Checklist Your dental practice likely files claims electronically and deals with large amounts of protected health information...READ MORE

Cybercrime in Dental Practices

 As digitization trends continue to transform the healthcare industry, cybercrime is becoming more and more prevalent, even in small...READ MORE

Understanding DSOs and Their Role in the Market

 What are DSOs? To circumvent laws regulating dental practice ownership, investors create separate entities — DSOs — to provide...READ MORE

Tips for Networking Your Dental Practice on Social Media

 Maintaining a strong social media presence is more important than ever. Not only does it make your dental practice...READ MORE

Managing Your Dental Practice’s Online Reputation

 While word-of-mouth is still the best form of advertising, these days many people look online to discover and learn...READ MORE

The Value of Goodwill

 Every viable dental practice has goodwill. Goodwill refers to the intangible assets that either restrict or enhance the future...READ MORE

Valuing a Practice Post COVID-19

 Will the pandemic decrease dental practice values? How can one protect the marketability of their practice? Has COVID-19 affected...READ MORE

Purchase Comparison: Selling to a DSO or an Independent Dentist

 What type of buyer is best for your dental practice? Discover the differences between selling to a DSO or...READ MORE

2020 Interest Rates Slashed — Now’s the Time to

 Dear Dentists, For more than 20 years, Watson Brown has lived by a core value to “take care of...READ MORE

Dental Spotlight: Drew Randall, DDS

 Through our Dental Spotlight Series we are taking the time to highlight successful professionals in the dental industry. If...READ MORE

Dental Spotlight: Sloan Hildebrand, DDS

 Through our Dental Spotlight Series we are taking the time to highlight successful professionals in the dental industry. If...READ MORE

Dental Spotlight: Michael Stapleton, DDS

 Through our Dental Spotlight Series we are taking the time to highlight successful professionals in the dental industry. If...READ MORE

Dental Spotlight: Kellie Cleveland, DDS

 Through our Dental Spotlight Series we are taking the time to highlight successful professionals in the dental industry. If...READ MORE

Dental Spotlight: Partha Mukherji, DDS

 Through our Dental Spotlight Series we are taking the time to highlight successful professionals in the dental industry. If...READ MORE

The Impact of the New Tax Law on Dentists

 By Erick Cutler, CPA The new tax plan brings major changes to both high-earning individuals and all small businesses....READ MORE

Dental Spotlight: David Fyffe, DDS

 Through our Dental Spotlight Series we are taking the time to highlight successful professionals in the dental industry. If...READ MORE

Dental Spotlight: Jackie Stanfield, DDS

 Through our Dental Spotlight Series we are taking the time to highlight successful professionals in the dental industry. If...READ MORE

Dental Spotlight: Mark Hyman, DDS

 Through our Dental Spotlight Series we are taking the time to highlight successful professionals in the dental industry. If...READ MORE

Dental Spotlight: Joe Piazza, DDS

 Through our Dental Spotlight Series we are taking the time to highlight successful professionals in the dental industry. If...READ MORE

IT Security in Your Dental Practice

 IT security has become an increasingly popular issue over the last few decades, especially as the health world has...READ MORE

HIPAA Compliance: What it Means For Your Dental Practice

 Your dental practice likely files claims electronically and deals with large amounts of protected health information (PHI) about your...READ MORE

Learn the Value of Your Dental Practice & Plan for Your Future

 In order to make an educated decision about your future as a dental practice owner, you need to have...READ MORE

Do You Have What It Takes to Be a Successful Practice Owner?

 Dental schools provide an excellent platform for training students to practice dentistry, but they also fail to prepare them...READ MORE

Dental Practice Valuations Unplugged

 Dentists (sellers and purchasers), bankers, and brokers all want to know the value of the dental practice in preparation...READ MORE

How Long Does it Take to Sell a Dental Practice?

 The length of time it takes to sell a dental practice varies greatly depending on several factors. A dental...READ MORE

How to Appraise a Dental Practice

 When you are ready to obtain a dental practice valuation, it is important to choose a competent, experienced valuation...READ MORE

How Does Selling a Dental Practice Work?

 Read our 12 steps towards a successful dental practice transition. Step 1: Hire a Broker Hiring an experienced broker is...READ MORE

Practice Transitions in Today’s Market

 Some of the frequent statements or questions I hear from dentists these days are- “I wish I could just...READ MORE

Grow Your Dental Practice with Blogs

 Online marketing has begun to dominate the way consumers and patients seek information about dental services and products. Dental...READ MORE

Top Policies for Your Employee Handbook

 If you have recently purchased a dental practice or have launched a startup, you may have postponed drafting an...READ MORE

Building Dental Patient Loyalty

 Dental patient retention not only keeps your production levels high but may also increase the overall value of your...READ MORE

Steps to Better Communication at Your Dental Practice

 The success of a dental practice relies upon its greatest asset, the dentist and his or her staff. Subsequently,...READ MORE

5 Ways to Attract New Dental Patients

 It is of vital importance to the financial health and longevity of a dental practice to maintain a steady...READ MORE

The Basics of Dental Practice Profitability

 While daily responsibilities may sometimes obscure the fact, dental practice profitability is of critical importance to maintaining your practice’s...READ MORE

Managing Your Dental Practice’s Online Reputation

 The internet can offer you and your dental practice a tremendous amount of positive exposure. Many patients perform online...READ MORE

Top 10 Steps Before Selling Your Dental Practice

 Many doctors approaching retirement have decided to delay plans of selling their dental practice until the economy recovers. As...READ MORE

LinkedIn for Dentists

 Of all the social media platforms, LinkedIn might offer the most benefits to professionals. With over 175 million users,...READ MORE

Understanding Credit and Financing for Dentists

 So you have decided to purchase a dental practice. Whether you have opted to buy an existing practice or...READ MORE

How to Establish Yourself as a Leader in Your New Practice

 If you have recently purchased an existing practice you are probably facing a number of transition challenges. Not the...READ MORE

Dental Practice Ownership: Startup or Existing?

 Any doctor weighing the benefits of dental practice ownership must eventually determine whether to purchase an existing practice or...READ MORE

Understanding Goodwill for Your Dental Practice

 The intangible asset referred to as personal goodwill is a critical component of your dental practice’s value. This form...READ MORE

How Good Dental Practice Transition Brokers Save You Money

 While it might be tempting to sell your dental practice without consulting a transition professional, you should first weigh...READ MORE

Finding a Dental Practice Broker: The Dangers of Dual Representation

 Imagine a lawsuit involving malpractice in which a patient sues a medical practitioner for damages for a mishandled procedure....READ MORE

Promoting Your Dental Practice on Facebook (Part 2)

 Updated 3/31/22 After implementing the essential Facebook strategies outlined in Part 1, your biggest focus should be posting consistently....READ MORE

Leasing a Space for Your Dental Practice

 Leasing a space for your dental practice is a major career decision that will have a far reaching impact...READ MORE

Promoting Your Dental Practice on Facebook (Part 1)

 Updated 3/31/22 With over 2.9 billion users, Facebook is one of the most visited websites in the country. The...READ MORE

Build the Perfect Dental Practice Team

 Your selection of dental personnel ranks among the most important professional decisions you will face. Few other factors influence...READ MORE

Is it Time for a Dental Practice Appraisal?

 It’s obvious that a current practice appraisal will be necessary if the practice is to be put on the...READ MORE

Conducting Due Diligence When Buying a Practice

 Once you’ve found a practice to buy you’ll need to conduct your due diligence and then after you have...READ MORE

Finding the Right Dental Practice

 Once you’ve made the decision to purchase a dental practice there are several other factors to decide. The first...READ MORE

Is it Better to Purchase an Existing Dental Practice or Start Your Own?

 You want your own practice, but the decision has to be made as to whether you want to buy...READ MORE

Purchasing a Dental Practice: Top 10 Questions to Ask the Seller

 When purchasing a dental practice, meeting the seller for the first time is an excellent opportunity to determine whether...READ MORE

Thinking of Selling Your Practice?

 Regardless of where you are in the selling process, you can never start too early. Consider the following 13...READ MORE

A Tax Attorney’s Advice to Dentists

 A dental practice transition requires expertise in many different areas business and the law. I will narrow my advice...READ MORE

Thinking of Adding an Associate? Be Prepared!

 The success of anything built or created, depends on a SOLID FOUNDATION. It only follows that before adding an...READ MORE

Pathways to a Practice Purchase … Proceed with Confidence!

 A significant number of dental careers begin with the purchase of a practice. This purchase is ONE OF THE...READ MORE

Four Basic Dental Practice Sale Strategies

 At the peak of your career as a dental professional, selling your practice may seem too far in the...READ MORE


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