Why Dental Practice Payroll Is Harder Than It Looks Dental practice payroll isn’t just cutting checks every two weeks. You’re paying a mix of hourly staff, production-based clinicians, and an owner who may be on an S-corp salary, all under federal and state rules that don’t always agree with each other. Most payroll problems don’t show up right away. They show up months later as a penalty notice, a misclassified associate, or a payroll liability account that never quite recon

The Bookkeeping Mistakes Dental Practices Make Most Often The same bookkeeping mistakes dental practices make show up again and again, whether it’s a solo general practice or a multi-location group. They rarely come from carelessness. Dental accounting has quirks that general bookkeeping doesn’t account for, like production vs. collections, insurance adjustments, and expensive equipment financing. Here are the five we see most often, and how to fix each one. Mistake #1: Recor

A fractional CFO gives your practice the strategic financial guidance of a full-time Chief Financial Officer, without the full-time cost. Instead of hiring a $200,000-a-year executive to sit on staff, you bring in that same level of expertise on a part-time, ongoing basis — usually a few hours a month, built around what your practice actually needs. For most dental practices, this isn't a "someday" hire. It's the level of financial guidance that becomes relevant well before t

Every dental practice tracks two numbers that sound similar but mean very different things: production and collections. Confusing the two — or worse, not tracking both separately — is one of the most common bookkeeping mistakes we see in dental practices. Production is the total value of the dentistry performed. It's what gets entered into your practice management software the moment a procedure is completed and coded, regardless of whether a dollar has actually changed hands

What Is Dental Practice Overhead Percentage? Overhead percentage is one of the simplest numbers in your practice — and one of the most misunderstood. It measures how much of every collected dollar goes toward running the practice before you take home a profit. The formula is straightforward: Overhead % = Total Practice Expenses ÷ Total Collections If your practice collects $100,000 in a month and spends $65,000 to keep the doors open, your overhead is 65%. That leaves $35,000