First Time Dentist: Your Detailed Roadmap to Buying the Practice of Your Dreams

Owning a dental practice can be one of the most professionally satisfying and lucrative investments of your life. However, buying a dental practice can be a daunting endeavor. Successfully closing on a practice requires you to have knowledge of many different facets of business - accounting, legal, operations, human resources, and much more. Most dentists will quickly find a maze of sometimes biased information from an industry which does not have their individual interests at heart. Practice purchases are further complicated by the incentive structure of brokers - which requires a buyer to pay to hire their own representation. The author (Adam Heim) was presented with this exact scenario when he helped his wife purchase her dental practice in 2014. After the experience concluded, the author felt compelled to do something about it, and created Firsttimedentist.com, a hub of information related solely to helping dentist find, buy and manage their dental practices.In the 'First Time