Howard Polansky

May 10, 2024 | dentaleconomics.com | Howard Polansky |Maggie Augustyn |Robert Minch |Gordon J. Christensen

It’s Sunday morning, Memorial Day weekend, 2018. Jayden, my older son, is 12 years old. He sees me sitting next to his bed. “Dad,” he asks with his voice barely above a whisper. “Yeah, bud?” I lean over and put my ear over his mouth to make sure I can really hear him. He then says three words I’ll never forget. Twelve days earlier, Jayden came home with a stomachache. Three days after that, he was at the Children’s Hospital getting ready for emergency surgery due to appendicitis that turned septic.

May 9, 2024 | dentaleconomics.com | Gary Kadi |Roger P. Levin |Bethany Valachi |Howard Polansky

I’ve spent a lot of time telling you how to prepare for joining a DSO: optimizing your practice, increasing EBITDA, finding the right broker, asking the right questions, and bringing the right demands to the table. But what happens after you join? If you’ve done your homework and entered negotiations with a surefire winner, it’s likely that you’re going to leave negotiations with something else entirely—a whole lotta money.

May 8, 2024 | dentaleconomics.com | Roger P. Levin |Bethany Valachi |Gary Kadi |Howard Polansky

In this 18th consecutive year of the Dental Economics/Levin Group Annual Practice Survey, we are excited to share these important insights about our profession. In addition to the incredibly useful and interesting data provided by this year’s respondents, this article will also outline practical suggestions and recommendations to help you apply this information to your practice and career. Conducted in early January 2024, respondents were all general dentists with 93% in private practice.

May 8, 2024 | dentaleconomics.com | Bethany Valachi |Roger P. Levin |Gary Kadi |Howard Polansky

By midmorning, it starts ... again; the all-too-familiar "tension headache" that soon evolves into a headache behind the dentist's right eye and pain in his right temple. In an adjacent operatory, the hygienist experiences burning pain on the left side of her neck. Why does this happen? Both clinicians recently embarked upon diligent exercise programs with their personal trainers in an effort to improve their musculoskeletal health and avoid such painful episodes. Does this sound familiar?