What actually makes patients leave when a practice goes out-of-network isn't the crown or the root canal, it's the cleaning. Jeff and Sabri Blumberg break down a specific fee strategy built around that exact insight.

Younger doctors are buying practices at a fraction of the rate they used to, just as a third of the profession is heading toward retirement. Jeff Blumberg breaks down the data behind what he calls a once-in-a-lifetime buying window for private practice dentists, and the four steps MGE is telling clients to take to get ready for it.

Some of the most repeated advice in dental practice management is also the most damaging. Jeff Blumberg counts down the top five myths: always being booked out far in advance, deactivating patients you have not seen in two years, keeping the doctor out of money conversations, treating new patients as your key health metric, and joining every insurance plan. He explains why each one hurts your productivity and what to do instead.

The mental stress of dropping insurance plans is almost always worse than what actually happens when you do it. Sabri Blumberg walks through the exact step-by-step process MGE uses to get a practice out of PPOs and Delta without losing revenue along the way.

Rushi Trivedi left Wall Street to help his wife, Dr. Shilpa Trivedi, run one practice. Two decades later, they have four offices in the New York City area, with more on the way. Rushi shares his blueprint for acquiring additional locations: what makes a practice worth buying, why he won't pay more than 60% of gross, why a trained manager comes before any deal, and why training your team is cheaper than not training them.

Dr. Artin Barzgar joins Jeff Blumberg to explain how he's spent over 20 years presenting and closing large reconstruction cases, including the multiple choice payment sheet and the deliberate silence that makes the difference between a patient hesitating and a patient deciding.

Collecting $40,000 up front on a big case feels like a win, but until you deliver the work, it's a liability on your books. Jeff Blumberg breaks down the pros and cons of offering prepayment on larger treatment plans, and four things to keep in mind to make it work.

Using debt to buy a cone beam is either a smart investment or a mistake, depending entirely on math you can run before you sign anything. Jeff Blumberg breaks down his simple tests for good versus bad debt in a dental practice, and the one scenario he calls a genuine five-alarm fire.

An owner doctor paid an implant-placing associate 40 percent, poured marketing dollars into implants, and watched production climb while actual profit dollars quietly fell. Jeff Blumberg breaks down when an associate should present treatment and when they shouldn't, depending entirely on whether you're running a conventional setup or a production doctor model.

Should a new patient get an hour, or an hour and a half? Jeff Blumberg breaks down when each length actually makes sense, and the specific intake questions that help reception make the right call.