A dental fractional CFO is a senior finance executive who leads the finance function part-time, giving a multi-location practice real financial strategy without a full-time salary on the books. For founders running three, five, or ten locations, the finance gap is rarely about bookkeeping. It is about who turns the numbers into decisions. Most practices…
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Dental business coaching means something very different to a founder running a $10M-plus enterprise than it does to a doctor opening a second operatory. At the top of the profession, the word coaching undersells the work itself. Dental business coaching at this level is executive advisory, the kind of strategic partnership that helps a founder…
Dental accounting software keeps an accurate record of what a practice earns and spends. It tracks income and expenses, runs reconciliations, produces financial statements, and handles payroll. For a single location, that is often enough. For a founder running several, the same tool that once gave a clear picture starts leaving the most important questions…
For many dental practices, significant growth opportunities are already sitting in the patient base. The challenge is recognizing those opportunities and having the confidence, systems, and team alignment to act on them. In this episode, Dr. Avi Patel, founder of Clear Aligner Advisors, joins the conversation to discuss how dentists can use clear aligner integration…
A second location rarely fails for the reasons a founder expects. Strong production, healthy collections, and a full schedule can all hold steady while the enterprise beneath them weakens. What gives way first is usually invisible on a profit and loss statement. Multi-location growth tests the structure of a business long before it tests its…
A dental partnership agreement is the document that defines how two or more partners share ownership, profit, decision-making, and risk in a practice. On paper it reads as a legal formality. In practice it is the operating constitution of the business, the set of rules that will govern every major decision, disagreement, and transition for…
Dental wealth management is the discipline of turning a high-performing practice into lasting personal wealth. For most professionals, wealth is something built outside their work, parked in markets they do not control and timed to a retirement decades away. For an established dental entrepreneur, the largest and most controllable asset is already in hand. It…
A dental practice EBITDA multiple is the number a buyer applies to your earnings to decide what the practice is worth. Take your adjusted EBITDA, multiply it by that figure, and you have the enterprise value of the business. It is the single most important number in any sale, affiliation, or partner buy-in, and most…
Growing a dental practice isn’t simply about adding more patients or opening additional locations. Sustainable growth requires operational excellence, intentional leadership, and systems that allow your practice to expand without creating unnecessary complexity. In this episode of the Tower Leadership Podcast, Lisa Gatsos, a seasoned dental operations expert and Senior Advisor at Tower Leadership, shares…
Dental conferences in 2026 give established dental entrepreneurs something rare, a room full of peers running practices at the same level, gathered in a few concentrated days. The strongest events pair advanced continuing education with the relationships, technology, and strategy conversations that decide where a practice goes next. The year’s calendar spans large national meetings…
