Megan Sobieski

Jan 11, 2024 | incisaledgemagazine.com | Megan Sobieski |Jerilyn Forsythe |Ed Kobesky |Sako Karakozian

BY SAKO KARAKOZIAN, DDSI HAVE NEVER questioned my decision to start a practice in Los Angeles. That doesn’t mean I’ve never thought about leaving. California has more dental schools than any other state, and dental offices are almost as common as gas stations. True, it’s sunny year-round, but housing prices are astro-nomical and taxes strain our finances.

Jan 11, 2024 | incisaledgemagazine.com | Megan Sobieski |Jerilyn Forsythe |Ed Kobesky |Larry Cohen

CLOSE Incisal Edge | 2024 WinterThe 11th Annual Lucy Hobbs Awards-------------------------------Pioneers, Role Models, Heroes... READ THIS HERE MAYBE LATER At first glance, this might look like somebody’s restaurant bill, but it’s actually a complete invoice for outfitting a state-of-the-art dental office in 1944. IT’S AMAZING to think that at one time, you could handwrite all the key components of a dental office on a single invoice the size of a restaurant’s guest check.

Jan 11, 2024 | incisaledgemagazine.com | Megan Sobieski |Jerilyn Forsythe |Ed Kobesky |Whitney D. Weiner

BY WHITNEY D. WEINER, DDS, MS I BUY JUNK PRACTICES. There, I said it. Don’t get me wrong; I don’t mean they’re literally trash. They just don’t have much—or sometimes any—cash flow, and that’s the bank’s definition of junk. Practices can fall into poor financial straits for lots of reasons. They usually tend to be little offices that DSOs aren’t interested in, so the seller’s options are limited (which also means that as a buyer you have less competition). However, they’re often far from worthless.

Jan 11, 2024 | incisaledgemagazine.com | Megan Sobieski |Ed Kobesky

DENTAL ASSISTANT OF THE YEARSARAH TENNY, Incisal Edge’s inaugural Dental Assistant of the Year, has spent her professional life in the service of patients in her central Pennsyl­vania hometown. “I’ll do this till I retire, as long as nothing hurts too bad,” she says with a laugh. “It never gets old.”SARAH TENNY HAS always loved going to the dentist.

Jan 11, 2024 | incisaledgemagazine.com | Megan Sobieski |Jerilyn Forsythe |Ed Kobesky |Kristen Jordan

BY KRISTEN JORDAN THE OLD SAYING is a practice goes down in value 20 percent per month until it’s worth zero. But I think it’s more like 50 percent in the first month and 20 percent a month after that.” That’s what Dr. Kyle Roth thinks about one of the worst-case scenarios when selling your practice: closing it, or letting it slowly wither away, when the time comes to sell. Why would anyone do that? Surprisingly, according to Dr. Roth, “it happens a lot, a lot, a lot.” He would know.