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PracticeCFO is committed to providing customized financial advice to dental practices and their owners. Below are our recent posts designed to keep you in-the-know.
There's Always a Bigger Boat: How Comparison Is Quietly Destroying Your Happiness
A man sells his manufacturing business for $100 million. He rents a yacht to celebrate, invites his closest friends, and they gather at the dock. By almost any measure, this is a moment of genuine triumph — the kind of outcome that represents decades of work, sacrifice, and commitment. As his friends board the yacht, […]
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The Pyrrhic Victory: When Winning in Your Dental Practice Means Losing in Your Life
In 280 BC, a Greek king named Pyrrhus received a request for military support from a southern Italian city-state called Tarentum. Tarentum was at war with the Roman Republic, and Pyrrhus — one of the most powerful military commanders of his era — agreed to help. He won. But the cost was catastrophic. His army […]
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The 15 Times Math: What Every Busy Dentist Needs to Calculate Tonight
A young hedge fund manager is having dinner with an old friend. The friend asks how he's doing, and he answers the way most high achievers answer: busy. Really busy. Building something. Making good money. Winning by every measure that has ever been put in front of him. Then the friend asks a different question. […]
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The Arrival Fallacy: Why Hitting Your Practice Goals Won't Make You Happy
You've probably felt it. You hit the number — the revenue goal, the paid-off loan, the second location, the whatever-it-was you'd been working toward for years. And for a moment, it felt the way you thought it would. Relief. Pride. The satisfaction of having done the hard thing. And then, faster than you expected, something […]
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The 5 Types of Wealth: Why Successful Dentists Still Feel Like Something Is Missing
There is a specific kind of conversation that Wes Read, CPA, CFP, and founder of Practice CFO, has had dozens of times with dental practice owner clients. The numbers are good. Collections are up. The overhead is under control. The retirement account is funded. The loan is paid down. Every financial metric they came in […]
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What Is Enough? The Money Psychology That Keeps Dentists Either Broke or Burned Out
At a party on Shelter Island, the author Kurt Vonnegut told his friend Joseph Heller — who wrote Catch-22 — that the hedge fund manager hosting them had made more money in a single day than Catch-22 had earned in its entire history. Heller's response: "Yes, but I have something he will never have — […]
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The Equipment Trap: Why Buying That CBCT Might Be the Most Expensive Decision You'll Ever Make
You probably know a dentist who bought a cone beam CT scanner and barely uses it. Maybe you are that dentist. The machine sits in a room, underutilized. You know the image quality is there. You know the clinical applications are real. But somewhere between the delivery day excitement and the reality of Monday morning, […]
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Your Dental Practice Is a Micro-Stock: The CEO Playbook for Allocating Capital
Every major company in the world has a capital allocation strategy. Apple decides which dollars go to R&D, which go to share buybacks, which go to dividends, and which sit in reserve. ExxonMobil does the same. So does every company between a two-person startup and a trillion-dollar enterprise. The quality of those decisions — not […]
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Nine Months. One Application. From a Tattoo Artist. Inside Dentistry's Worst Hiring Crisis.
If you want to understand the state of the American labor market in 2026, you don't need to look at aggregate unemployment figures or Federal Reserve commentary. You need to read the section of the ADA Health Policy Institute's Q1 2026 dental economy report titled "Staffing." It reads like a survival diary. Practice owners describing […]
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