Guides for solo dental practice owners
Long-form and practical, one per profit leak — what the leak is, how to measure it in your own practice, and how to close it. Each ends at the tool that does the work and a calculator to run your numbers.
Insurance write-offs
Should you drop a PPO? How to work out what a plan really pays you
A practical way to see what each insurance plan actually pays you, tell a fair payer from a plan that loses money on every visit, and leave the worst ones without losing the patients.
How these guides are written
- Every figure has a source, or it is not in the guide. Industry statistics are cited where they are used; results from the first practice on Profit Smiles are stated as one practice's results, never as averages.
- The method comes first, the tool second. Each guide shows how to work the problem by hand before it shows the tool that does it at scale — you can act on a guide without creating an account.
- Written by Profit Smiles. Dr. Prachi Deore, the spokesperson for Profit Smiles and the owner of the first practice on it, is quoted where she has said the thing; the guides are not written in her name.
The seven tools these guides point at: The Tools. The arithmetic, ready to run: Calculators.
Read the guide, then run it in your own practice.
All seven tools are free for your first hundred days — no credit card, nothing to cancel, and your dashboard shows what each one returns.
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