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...
by David Darab | Aug 9, 2026 | Business, Finance, Management
You Don’t Have a Money Problem. You Have a Speed Problem or a Discipline Problem. A dentist tells me cash is tight. I ask a question before anything else: is the money late, or is it gone? Almost nobody knows. That unanswered question is why owners spend a year...
by David Darab | Jul 29, 2026 | Business, Management
Your Overhead Has Six Lines. Most Owners Are Managing One. STAY | SCALE | SLOW DOWN | SELL The Decision Before the Decision™ Business intelligence for independent dental practice owners. August 2026 | STAY Overhead is not a single percentage — it is six separate cost...
