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 

Articles

Dental advisors and dentists have some ideas on using retirement plans to create a current tax savings boon for the dental practitioner.

Tips to Reduce the Tax Upon Transitioning the Dental Practice

Sunbit is sharing the survey data results at ADA SmileCon 2021 that show financing trends in the dental industry. 

Sunbit Shares Industry Survey Data Results at ADA SmileCon 2021

Randy Modos is the President and Co-Founder of PayJunction, a payment processor of choice for practice-based industries for over 20 years. PayJunction provides a modern end-to-end payment technology that is backed by a customer first approach to service and transparent pricing. The company processes $7 Billion in transaction volume annually and works with nearly 2,000 medical practices across the United States.

Spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic, contactless and digital payment systems are a useful tool when improving the overall patient experience at your practice. 

How Contactless and Digital Payments Improve the Patient Experience

Eric Johnson is the founder and CEO of membersy, a digital health company democratizing access to quality, affordable dental care through subscription-based dentistry. While building his career in the dental care space, Eric founded membersy in 2015 with the mission of helping dental professionals take back the dental care narrative from big insurance companies through pricing transparency and a personalized membership experience for patients.

Digitizing the dental patient experience is vital to push practices forward and stay on top in the industry. 

Digitizing the Dental Patient Experience

Dentists need to smart about paying for divorce and hiring the best available practice valuation expert should be a strong consideration.

Paying Less Now May Cost More Later With a Divorce

Phil Bride is deeply experienced in building successful teams and organizations. With over 30 years of business growth and development experience, he guides teams through the next stages of their business journey.

Prior to joining the Fortune Management team, Bride built and managed multiple companies from the ground up. He owns a consulting firm, Fortune Management NW, that specializes in assisting practices throughout their growth journey. his coaching approach utilizes business skill development, tracking progress, guiding strategic directions, team training, and executive coaching to help business owners develop, focus on, and accomplish worthy goals.

Bride earned his master of business administration and bachelor of science degrees from the University of Portland. He was previously the president of the international business intelligence company JRI which provided key performance indicator tools for developing businesses. He has also developed teams in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia. He is certified in professional assessments (DISC, AI).

Bride’s years of experience and approach to coaching teams have created environments of growth in his clients. He focuses on the continued growth and improvements of all 5 business engines in a dental practice.

Contact Bride today to get started at 503-753-9971. You can also learn more about him at 

A powerful culture in the dental practice can withstand the onslaught of cancellations, chaotic schedules, difficult patients, miscommunications, and insurance issues.

Creating a Powerful Culture, 1 Person at a Time

Philips and Bento will partner up to package products directly into dental benefit plans for patients. 

Philips Announces Partnership with Bento

This post-pandemic success guide is written to help patients improve the most important areas of their lives. 

Post Pandemic Success Guide by Periodontist Tom McCawley Releases 

Evaluators need to be diligent in dental practice evaluations, but there are a variety of ways in which practices were valued before and during COVID-19. 

Comparing Dental Practice Valuations During COVID-19

Videos

Dental practice coach Mike Massotto joins editorial director Noah Levine for 30 minutes of practice help and advice. In this episode, Mike and Noah discuss the impact of insurance in dental care. 