title: The business of dentistry.
abstract: Dentistry is a rapidly evolving health care occupation that can offer an outstanding quality of life, allowing each doctor to define how he or she would like to practice. Dentistry has a high-income potential compared with many other occupations, and this also contributes to the quality of life of dental professionals. But the profession can be overwhelming due to the variety of procedures performed, the large number of systems in place and the multiple management issues to deal with. While there is no one-size-fits-all system that will work for all practices, KPIs can help each professional evaluate how he or she would like the practice to operate and grow. Using KPIs to help identify the strengths and weaknesses of your practice, you can set and establish the systems that will assure achievement of those goals.
authors.affiliation: Levin Group Inc., Owings Mills, MD 21117, USA. rlevin@levingroup.com
authors.forename: Roger
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Levin
mesh_terms: D019985:Benchmarking; D006801:Humans; D011215:Practice Management, Dental / Q000458:organization & administration*