Research: Practice setting may determine dentists’ satisfaction

Big or small, there are pros and cons to working in various dental practice settings, and dentists measure their career satisfaction in different ways. Researchers found that dentists working in large group settings reported more satisfaction with income and benefits than dentists in solo practices, as well as less stress compared to dentists in solo or small practices,… Read More »

Dentist employment agreements seminar video

Jeffrey Fraum, senior associate general counsel for the American Dental Association, presented an overview of dental employment agreements to dental students at the University of Illinois at Chicago. “You guys deal with contracts all the time. You click through contracts [online] and you get them at the bank. Nobody’s got the time to read them all, but your employment… Read More »

Creating positive space: An essential for your office environment

This post is for Tiffani Horton, and for everyone else who is fighting a battle on the inside. I’m against watching the news. Other people can watch the news all they want to. That’s fine. I just don’t want to watch it myself. I don’t want to watch the news because buried in every news reel is a… Read More »

So you want to be a practice owner someday: Building and managing your cash flow

Editor’s note: This is the sixth article in a summer series of New Dentist Now blog posts on practice ownership from Wells Fargo Practice Finance, the practice lender endorsed by ADA Business Resources. To read other articles from the series, click here. Your dental practice is a valuable and beneficial investment that can be an important resource for… Read More »

New dentist among ‘Top 25 Women in Dentistry 2015’

Dental Products Report named Dr. Andrea Janik, District 15 ADA New Dentist Committee member, among the “Top 25 Women in Dentistry 2015.” In its sixth year, the list was designed to recognize women from across the dental industry, including dental professionals, industry leaders and practitioners. Dr. Janik, of San Antonio, is a dental practice owner in the Pacific… Read More »

3 months before opening checklist – part 1: Finance

In previous articles, I’ve covered some of the very first things you’ll do as a new dentist who is planning to open a new practice. These included forming a legal entity and then actually setting one up. In this article we’re shifting gears and turning to the first of three articles covering some of the more practical steps… Read More »