Bruce Bryen is a certified public accountant with over 45 years of experience and is a part of Baratz & Associates CPAs. He specializes in deferred compensation, such as retirement planning design; income and estate tax planning; determination of the proper organizational business structure; asset protection and structuring loan packages for presentation to financial institutions. He is experienced in providing litigation support services to dentists with Valuation and Expert Witness testimony in matrimonial and partnership dispute cases. He is also a financial writer for several dental journals. You may contact him at 609-502-0691 or at 

Articles

The author and recipient must carefully read and understand what is being proposed in these documents before the dentist signs them.  

 Dental Practice Owners Should Read, Understand Engagement Letters

Laura Dorr is the former executive editor of DPR's Modern Dental Network and a regular contributing author.

What to take into account before adding additional dental office locations so that your business decisions pay off to the fullest.

Expanding Your Dental Practice Opportunities

Tonya Lanthier is a registered dental hygienist and the DentalPost Founder & CEO. DentalPost.net, one of the fastest growing dental-related career service providers in the country, was created by Tonya, a successful dental hygienist who has been working in the dental field for over 20 years.

Take a look at some of the tools and tips to find the right fit for your practice when hiring new employees.  

Solo to DSO: How Successful Practices Hire 

It’s a good time for dentists and their dental CPAs and other financial advisors to start thinking about planning for changes in their taxes.

Be Prepared as Here Come the Taxes 

Lisa Newburger, a master's level social worker supervisor, helps audiences find humor in talking about tough topics. Her "in-your-face" style of presentations and writing will make you smile or just shock you into taking some action. Either way, she is very effective at empowering others to reach their goals and feel better about themselves. Her entertaining workshops are available for national and international audiences. Writing for the dental industry since 2010, she uses an alterego (Diana Directive) to illustrate her points in a sarcastic but effective way. Presentations can be scheduled by contacting Lisa at www.discussdirectives.com/dental.html.

How to navigate open communication between the patient and dental professional.  

My Dentist Is Retiring and Did Not Tell Me 

When you need a product to deliver excellent patient care, we share strategies to convince practice stakeholders to get you the right stock. 

The Right Stock: Getting Your Practice to Purchase the Products You Like To Use 

CureMint will partner up with InterDent to provide a procurement platform that eliminates waste and saves time. 

CureMint and InterDent Partner Up

Henry Schein announces practice transitions and recruiting renames for consistency and reliability across all services. 

Henry Schein Renames Practice Transitions and Dental Recruitment Businesses

What should your practice stock up on before ringing in the new year? From tax considerations to inventory management strategy to supply chain concerns, we discuss the options in the last few days of the year. 

What Materials Should You Stock up on Before the End of the Year? 

In most cases, the primary dentist, most likely the owner, is the one who will have the majority of the goodwill assigned to him or her and will take the value of the dental practice with its assignment of personal goodwill to mean a larger distribution to the dentist rather than to the spouse of the dentist. 