Practice Advocate Blog

Expanding Our Reach in Western Canada — Introducing Ryan McFarland We're excited to share that Ryan McFarland has joined our team to bring our full suite of valuation and transition services to Alberta dentists. This is...

Every practice owner will get at least one valuation for their practice in their course of ownership. As industry professionals, we are advocates of this happening not only at the time of contemplation of sale, but at...

Recently I completed my Certified Exit Planning Advisor designation. This was an important value-add I wanted to bring to my clients in dentistry. We’ve got lots of appraisers, lots of brokers, and lots of consultants...

In spite of all the careers AI will take over, there are many it will simply augment. Yours is one of those. For all the diagnostics and treatment planning AI will be able to do in dentistry, it will never be able to...

We see too many dentists doing their own marketing. Dentists know dentistry better than anyone else. Many believe that somehow the use of social media and owning a business translates into the expertise of both domains....

In the last blog, I mentioned that one of the common variables that seems to be contributing favourably and somewhat passively to practice growth right now is a critical mass of patients at or above 2,200. At that magic...

Different than 30 years ago, there are now two different types of practices: Practices that are growing and practices that are shrinking. We get to work with a lot of dentists. Much like you get the true honour of being...

For the past three years, I’ve had the pleasure of developing and teaching the business of dentistry curriculum at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Dentistry for the first, second, third and fourth year DDS...

On January 28 the Bank of Canada will be announcing their position on the policy rate. Most of the major Canadian banks predict we are going to hold where we are for most of 2026 and see increases late in the year. It...