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Financial and retirement planning for dentists
Good financial planning changes the dynamics of your dentist-patient relationships. When you feel secure financially, your patients need you more to help them become healthier than you need them to pay the bills. You can practice from choice and integrity. Resources, tips and tools on the financial and psychological aspects of money in a dental practice. These articles will help you understand the role that money plays in your personal and professional life. Included are Nitty-gritty articles to help you prosper in dentistry and articles on the financial and emotional process of retirement. Dr L. D. Pankey would always tell the dentist who was interested in pursuing an individualized Tier IV relationship-based practice – “Go home and develop a bank account.” Dr. Harold Wirth would say “Learn to live on less than you make.”
 When you feel secure financially, your patients need you more to help them become healthier than you need them to pay the bills.
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Rich Green, DDS, MBA, has this to say "Financial freedom is that point in your life when you have learned how to live on less than you make. Financial independence is that point when the earnings on your invested assets have replaced your hands as an income stream." Omer Reed, DDS was more to the point when he said "You can't give from empty pockets". Classic articles: L.D. Pankey’s guide to financial freedom for dentists A guiding principles statement is crucial for your dental practice success. How do you decide when to retire from your dental practice? A Philosophy of Wealth Acccumulation for Dentists Sign up for the free ISOC Bulletin - UR corner of this page
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Wise cost cutting in your dental practice
Lynn D Carlisle DDS
With all of the dire news in the media about the financial meltdown and recession, you may be frightened into indiscriminately wielding the cost cutting axe. Be wise and don't cut out the heart of your dental practice. Use this guideline: don't cut anything that will detract from . . .
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27 things to do to navigate the recession - a checklist for dentists
Lynn D Carlisle DDS
I was tempted to label this checklist Recession Proof your Dental Practice, but decided on the more honest "navigate the recession" to help you navigate the whitewater of the recession of 2008-?". I can't guarantee that your practice will be recession proof if you read the checklist, but I know if applied the checklist will help you navigate the recession and have a stronger practice at the other end. . . .
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The Science of Creating Wealth - a book review
Lynn D Carlisle, DDS
Mike Schuster, DDS has written a must read book to help dentists create wealth. Most dentists, even those with high incomes, struggle with creating wealth. They have expensive cars, live in the best part of town, kids in the right schools, boy toys and girl toys, go to exotic places, often the best of every material thing, but they do not have wealth. . . .
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Consumer trends and your dental practice - The Expectation Economy
Why good is no longer good enough for consumers and patients. Consumer trends effect consumer/patient attitudes and health buying decisions. trendwatching.com supplies up to date information on current and future consumer trends. Read the report and see how this trend will influence your dental or medical practice decisions . . .
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Abundance thinkers create the breakthroughs
Doug Young
Staying ahead in today's world of transformation and competition demands Breakthrough Performance--taking an aspect of your life or your practice distinctively beyond where it has ever been before. What distinguishes breakthrough performers? . . .
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Book review Millionaire next door
Stanley, Thomas J. and Danko, William D., Millionaire Next Door, Longstreet Press, 1996. Examples from their research that income and living the high life does not automatically determine who is a mil . . .
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