How Do these practices survive?

[shamrock2006]

I'm really baffled by this...there are quite a few dental offices where I live. The guy I shadowed always had a relatively fluid schedule and performs all types of procedures. However, i NEVER see anyone at these other practices yet they have been around for years. I also know they each have like 2 or 3 dentists per office. I can't figure it out. Anyone else ever notice this?

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[johntara04]

If you collect $2,000 a day as a dentist, you will collect $460,000 a year (5 days a week, 46 weeks a year). If you take home 35% of that, your salary for the year is $161,000. $2,000 a day in collections is nothing. That is a crown, root canal, and 2 fillings. You don't need that many patients to make good money. That is how those other offices can stay in business. Those doctors might not be the ones taking home $300,000 but they are still making a nice living.