Frequently Asked Questions

  It was time to do the things I couldn't do when working almost 60 hours a week, 51+ weeks a year.  In the last 38 years, I have never taken more than one week vacation. Several years I took no vacation at all. 

 The hours a business is open aren't the hours a business owner works. There is preparation before the business opens. There is clean up and documentation after the business closes. After doing dentistry all day, I had to do all the things needed to run the business of dentistry. Paying bills, regulatory compliance documentation, billing insurance and posting payments to patient accounts, continuing education, repairs and maintenance, was all done by me after hours. 

 Owning a small business and being an employer, is an experience few will undertake in their lifetime. You are never really free from your responsibility of paying bills and your employees. In a sense, you never really leave work. 

 Despite the hours, I was much happier as a healthcare employer than an employee. Sometimes you have to put a price on self-determination. That price was time and stress. 

I look forward to seeing the world with my wife.

There was no way of knowing exactly how the new owner would treat my patients. It was better for our patients to find a new dentist, than to endorse a dentist (or corporate owner these days) that we could never be entirely certain. 

Simple answer: bots and constant calls from scammers and salespeople.

   You can leave a message at the old office phone number.

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In short, that would be impossible.

 Dentistry is an individual service. Unlike the sellers of retail products, no two service providers are exactly alike. Each dental office will have their own individual practice philosophy. Each will set their own fees, hours and office policies. 

 Ultimately, your experience is dependent on the skills and compassion of the dentist themselves. Each dentist is unique and cannot be duplicated. 

No I can't.

 Your new dentist can tell you if you will require medication and will write a new prescription if he/she deems it necessary. 

Almost never.

   In order to do a proper examination, your new dentist needs to know the condition of your entire oral health on that day, not some time in the past. While an old x-ray might give the dentist information of the former state, the old x-ray is rarely enough on its own.