Whether you are a new dentist opening your first practice or an experienced dentist looking to take your current practice to the next level, Dr. Edward Logan's new book on dental practice growth will help you achieve your goals. Written by a dentist for dentists, Dentistry's Business Secrets reveals the vital business truths Dr. Logan perfected while growing three successful dental practices from scratch.

Here's Your Guide to Starting a Successful Dental Practice... To become a dentist, you must spend a tremendous amount of time and energy mastering the extensive knowledge required to practice clinical dentistry. However, most dentists are provided very little knowledge and education on how to become a successful practice owner or how to run a successful dental practice. This lack of knowledge often leads to costly mistakes for the new dentist. That's where we come in. We help dentists just like you start or purchase a successful dental practice without the costly mistakes. In this book, you will:� Learn how to set your goals and determine "Why" you want to be a practice owner.� Create a strategy to become a practice owner including choosing a legal entity.� Determine an ideal business location.� Analyze how much money you will need to get started.� Begin to create a business plan by planning for your business.� Learn how to hire employees to avoid liability. Most dentist underestimate the amount of work it takes to become a practice owner and therefore don't give it the full attention it deserves. Now you can start a successful dental practice and avoid the costly mistakes so many new dentists make. If you'd like to help, just visit www.StrategicDentists.com or call us at 925-999-8200 and we will take it from there.

While esthetic care has been an important part of dentistry for many decades, very few practices do as much esthetic dentistry as they would like. When faced with trying to respond to esthetic demands of existing patients and expand services to potential patient populations, most clinicians must learn the skills of how to successfully manage and grow this segment of their practice. This book provides dentists with the guidelines and strategies to make that happen. The authors detail many key strategies for success, such as establishing a strategic plan, monitoring critical factors of the practice, developing a dynamic and productive team, implementing marketing, using a treatment coordinator, and understanding how to finance and schedule esthetic dentistry. In addition, each chapter is interspersed with informative interviews with some of the most successful esthetic dental practitioners from around the world who offer unique insights into how their teams operate and what has made their practices succeed.

Dr. David Willis combines his experience as a practicing dentist, educator, MBA, and certified financial planner in this breakthrough text about managing a dental business. Rather than a checklist of steps for success, Business Basics for Dentists describes business, economic, marketing, and management principles and explains how to apply them to the dental practice. Dental students and new practitioners will learn how to use the core strategic and operational business philosophies to develop an effective dental practice. He provides the essential elements of a business course--management principles, economics, business finance, and financial analysis--without bogged down in too much detail. These are then related specifically to various aspects of running and managing a dental practice, including office communications, billing, inventory, and marketing the practice. All aspects of practice transition are approached: career opportunities, buying a practice, starting a new practice, multi-practitioner arrangements, practice valuation, and planning and developing a practice. Last, Willis included personal financial planning to ensure that the dentist is also planning for his own finances and retirement beyond the bounds of the practice.