Laura Dorr is the former executive editor of DPR's Modern Dental Network and a regular contributing author.

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By making sustainable, calculated investments, you can increase your revenue, practice value, your retirement nest egg, and more.

Smart Savings: Practice Investment Strategies That Retain the Most Value

Stan Goff is a Managing Editor with MJH Life Sciences, which includes Dental Products Report, Dental Practice Management, Dental Lab Products, Modern Hygienist, and Dentist's Money Digest. He has covered the dental industry since 1999 and can be reached at sgoff@mjhlifesciences.com.  

Sunbit’s Smile Now, Pay Over Time program is enabling 2 Nevada practices to assist more clients by offering them the flexibility to pay for dental services over a period of 6, 12, 18, 24, and even up to 72 months.

Closer Look: A Financial Solution Helps Patients Help Themselves

Bruce Bryen is a certified public accountant with over 45 years of experience and is a part of Baratz & Associates CPAs. He specializes in deferred compensation, such as retirement planning design; income and estate tax planning; determination of the proper organizational business structure; asset protection and structuring loan packages for presentation to financial institutions. He is experienced in providing litigation support services to dentists with Valuation and Expert Witness testimony in matrimonial and partnership dispute cases. He is also a financial writer for several dental journals. You may contact him at 609-502-0691 or at 

Credentials, credentials, credentials; when it comes to practice valuations you need an expert well-versed in dental practices.

Finding the Best Credentialed Evaluator Critical for Dental Practice Valuations

Upon receiving her Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and Accounting from Baylor University, Jennifer obtained her license as a Certified Public Accountant. After working in public accounting as an auditor of financial service companies, Jennifer transitioned her career to dentistry. She has been in the dental field since 2007 as a practice manager and accountant. 

The aspects of private dental practice that she enjoyed the most were developing the business and staff, and increasing the practice’s efficiency, and productivity. Jennifer combines her in-depth knowledge of dentistry with her extensive accounting background to provide clients with expert valuation services. Jennifer and her family live in Colorado Springs, Colorado. She enjoys being involved in her children’s activities, traveling, and attending as many sporting events as possible.

What You Need to Know About Valuing Your Practice

Is your retirement plan losing substantially and you don’t know how to fix it? Are you worried about extending your time as a practicing dentist when you can retire comfortably?

Try These Solutions to Fix Retirement Plan Losses

Brogan Baxter is the Chief Operating Officer and head of the planning and advisory team at Four Quadrants Advisory, the concierge business and accounting advisory firm exclusive to the dental community. Baxter recently celebrated 18 years at Four Quadrants, delivering high impact results for their clients. Four Quadrants utilizes multi-disciplinary strategies to assist national dental clients in their professional and personal finances with a significant focus on retirement savings. Today, Four Quadrants operates in 33 states with plans for exponential growth in the coming years. Visit 

You can save thousands by regularly reviewing your numbers, assessing employee wages and lab fees, and researching budgets and needs before purchasing new equipment.


4 Tips for Cutting Overhead Costs in Your Dental Practice

Productive Dentists Academy Introduces Practice Assessment 

Productive Dentist Academy has created Investment Grade Practices to instruct practice owners on creating value in their practice for a fruitful retirement. 

Productive Dentist Academy Introduces Investment Grade Practices to the Dental Industry

This refinancing platform is designed to help recent dental and medical graduates navigate student debt payments and financing. 

Dental and Medical Student Debt Refinancing Platform “Dental Debt Solutions” Live Now

Elizabeth Slane is the President of the ES Agency LLC and can be reached at 631-265-5860. Shehas 35 years experience as an Underwriter for Dental and Physician Malpractice policies, Businessowners policies, and Workers Compensation policies. This includes evaluating risks involved when insuring doctors and establishing the pricing for their Individual malpractice policies, Entity malpractice policies, and their Businessowners policies. This experience has led to long established relationships with clients and insurance carriers. She provides malpractice insurance and businessowners insurance coverage on a wide range of insurers from the smallest entities to the larger practices.

New graduates in the dental field need to be aware of the different types of property and casualty insurances that are necessary to protect their interests.