by David Darab | Oct 19, 2026 | blogs, Business, Finance
Your practice isn’t worth what it pays you. It’s worth what it pays the next owner after you leave. A buyer pays for cash flow they expect to collect. Your skill and your patient relationships don’t transfer. They leave with you. The Arithmetic Take an illustrative...
by David Darab | Oct 11, 2026 | blogs, Business, Finance
Your Practice Is Worth What a Stranger Will Pay Every practice owner I’ve met can tell you what the practice costs. Not the loan, the life: the early mornings, the missed weekends, the years of carrying the schedule on their own hands. That cost is real. It is also...
by David Darab | Oct 4, 2026 | blogs, Business, Management
Every Dollar Leaves a Trail: Finding the Cash Leaks Your P&L Can’t Show You Every dollar that moves through a dental practice leaves a record. A bank line. A card charge. A ledger entry. An adjustment code. The problem isn’t that the trail is hidden....
by David Darab | Sep 29, 2026 | blogs, Business, Retirement Planning
Slowing Down Before You Sell: How Cutting Clinical Days Costs You at Closing Every practice owner wants to slow down. Almost none have built a practice that lets them. Cut from five clinical days to three in the years before you sell, and the buyer does not see a...
by David Darab | Sep 27, 2026 | blogs, Business, Management
Profit Is an Opinion. Your Bank Balance Is a Fact. Accountants have repeated a version of this line for decades: profit is an opinion, cash is a fact. They usually say it with a knowing smile, then drop it. In a dental practice, it deserves more than a smile, because...
by David Darab | Sep 20, 2026 | blogs, Management, Productivity Pearls
Ty Webb, Chevy Chase’s character in Caddyshack, has a line that’s stuck with me for years: “A flute without holes is not a flute. A donut without a hole is a Danish.” It’s a throwaway joke. It’s also a small piece of real thinking. The Hole The hole isn’t a flaw in...
by David Darab | Sep 13, 2026 | blogs, Business, Management
Your Practice Is Growing, and You Have No Cash. There Are Only Two Reasons. Production up eleven percent. Collections up nine. Line of credit drawn for the first time in four years. Your accountant says it was a good year. Your checking account disagrees. Two things...
by David Darab | Sep 13, 2026 | blogs, Business, Management
September 2026 | SCALE Every owner I hear from frames associate turnover the same way: I can’t compete with what the DSO is paying. That framing is comfortable, and it is mostly wrong. It turns a structural problem into a checkbook problem, and a checkbook...
by David Darab | Aug 30, 2026 | Business, Management
Dental Practice Profit Margin: Why 2% Costs You 10% Your dental practice profit margin can slip two percent without a single thing about your day looking different. Same patients. Same chair time. Same lab invoices. Same payroll. And nobody sends your overhead a memo...
by David Darab | Aug 20, 2026 | Finance, Management
Dental Collections vs Production: What the Bank Actually Sees The debate over dental collections vs production usually ends the same way. Someone pulls the report, points at a collections percentage in the high nineties, and the conversation stops. The number looks...
