Dental Growth & Exit Newsletter


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The Most Dangerous Years of Your Dental Career Are the Ones That Feel the Safest

Protect your practice, protect your value, and stay ahead of the shifts that shape your future, starting today.

If you’re in the stable, established stage of your career, you’re in the exact spot where small blind spots can quietly turn into big consequences.

That’s why I created the Dental Growth & Exit Newsletter: a monthly print publication that helps you see what’s changing long before it affects your practice or your future plans.

Complete the form on this page and I’ll send you your welcome package, including the first issue of the newsletter, exclusive practice-building bonuses, and your second issue next month. You’ll have everything you need to decide whether this is the guidance you’ve been missing.

What this newsletter helps you do:

  • Catch early warning signs in your numbers before they cost you

  • Understand how buyers, bankers, and advisors evaluate your practice

  • Strengthen profitability in the middle and late stages of your career

  • Protect your exit value, whether it’s one year or ten years away

  • Stay ahead of the trends shaping dentistry right now

Meet the Person Who’s Going to Help You Protect the Most Valuable Asset You Own

If we haven’t met, I’m Stan Kinder.

I’ve spent more than two decades sitting across from dentists at every stage of their careers, doctors with growing practices, doctors looking for clarity, and doctors who suddenly realized their numbers weren’t telling the story they thought they were.

I started working with DSOs in the late 90s, long before private equity made dentistry the industry it is today.

Since then, I’ve:

  • Helped grow a DSO from $25 million to over $100 million in annual revenue

  • Served as head of business development during major growth cycles

  • Been directly involved in more than $200 million in dental practice transactions

  • Analyzed and advised hundreds of practices from the buyer’s point of view

  • Negotiated deals where both the doctor and the DSO walked away happy

  • Consulted on valuations, transitions, and long-term practice planning

All of that gave me a front-row seat to what really affects a practice’s value, not the hype, not the fear tactics, not the wishful thinking, but the actual levers that matter.

And here’s what I noticed after working with so many doctors:

The dentists who thrive in the later years of their career aren’t the ones who work the hardest… they’re the ones who stay informed.

They see what’s changing before it shows up in their numbers. They protect the value they’ve built. And they make decisions from a place of clarity, not guesswork.

That’s why I started this newsletter. Not everyone needs a full-blown consultant. But every doctor deserves a steady stream of honest, useful insight that helps them keep control of their future.

The Middle of Your Career Is When the Quiet Problems Start Doing the Most Damage

When you’re early in your career, every problem screams. You feel every dip in production. Every overhead spike grabs your attention. Every empty chair stresses you out.

But when you’re established, when things feel steady, when the schedule is full, when the team knows what to do. that’s when the real danger slips in. Because stability creates blind spots.

This is the stage where:

  • The practice feels stable, while the numbers underneath can be drifting the wrong way

  • Overhead rises quietly, month by month, until one day you wonder how it got so high

  • Treatment plans don’t convert like they used to, but it happens so slowly you barely notice

  • Your team feels comfortable… maybe too comfortable

  • Systems built years ago no longer match the size or demands of your current practice

  • Your true valuation starts slipping long before anyone tells you, and by then it’s too late to fix

The scary part…

Buyers, banks, and advisors spot these things immediately.

Most dentists don’t.

Not because you’re not smart and not because you’re not paying attention. But because you’re inside the practice… and they’re not.

This is why so many good dentists get blindsided late in their career. The practice they thought was strong isn’t as strong as they assumed. The value they expected isn’t there. And the options they believed they’d have? Suddenly limited.

You deserve better than that.

You deserve real information; honest, clear, and specific to the stage you’re in. You deserve to know what’s changing before it changes your life. And you deserve options. Real options.

That’s why this newsletter exists.

To help you see the things you can’t see from inside the practice. To keep your value from slipping quietly. To make sure you’re prepared for whatever the next chapter looks like, whether that’s growth, transition, or simply protecting what you’ve already built.

What You’ll Receive Every Month

Each monthly issue of Dental Growth & Exit is a 12–16 page, print-only newsletter sent directly to your doorstep. Inside, you get the insight dentists need in the middle and later stages of their careers, delivered in plain language and grounded in real experience.

Every month begins with a lead article that breaks down the most important shift happening in dentistry right now. Whether it’s movement in valuations, changes in buyer behavior, patterns I’m seeing during real practice analyses, or risks quietly forming under the surface, you’ll see what’s happening long before it reaches your doorstep.

You may see topics like:

  • what’s quietly lowering practice values this quarter

  • the early indicators that a stable practice is actually entering a decline

  • how DSOs are adjusting expectations, and what that means for your exit

  • which lending standards are tightening, and how banks are evaluating practices

  • the operational gaps buyers catch instantly (and most doctors never notice)

If something is shifting in a way that affects your practice, I’ll put it in the newsletter before it becomes a problem.

Legal Insight From Mandelbaum Barrett

Each issue includes a legal article from the nationally recognized dental law division at Mandelbaum Barrett. Their guidance is specific, practical, and based on what they’re seeing inside real dental transactions.

Topics may include:

• associate and employment agreements

• partnership and equity structures

• compliance and regulatory concerns

• transition contract red flags

• legal pitfalls that quietly reduce practice value

This kind of insight normally requires putting an attorney on retainer. You’re getting it every month.

Growth Strategy From Parthiv Shah

You’ll also receive a monthly contribution from Parthiv Shah, one of the most trusted advisors in dental practice growth. His articles are designed for doctors who want to strengthen profitability, whether they’re five years from selling or fifteen.

You may learn:

  • how small operational tweaks improve EBITDA

  • how to increase acceptance of high-value treatment

  • which marketing metrics actually impact your valuation

  • simple, realistic levers that move revenue without adding chaos

These aren’t theories. These are proven growth moves tied directly to practice value.

Practice Management Guidance From Industry Experts

You’ll hear from respected voices like Dr. Chris Phelps, Dr. Michael Goldberg, and other occasional contributors who have built, sold, and advised successful practices.

Their articles will focus on:

  • team performance

  • leadership and communication

  • case acceptance psychology

  • culture and retention

  • operational efficiency

  • how your systems affect your valuation

This is practical guidance from people who have lived the business of dentistry, not consultants guessing from the sidelines.

Special Reports (When Needed)

When something meaningful shifts in dentistry: lending behavior, DSO consolidation, economic pressure, regulatory changes, you’ll receive a special expanded edition explaining:

  1. What’s happening

  2. Why it matters

  3. How it affects your practice

  4. What steps you may want to take

I don’t wait for rumors or headlines. You get the real analysis, directly and clearly.

Every issue gives you clarity, direction, and a realistic understanding of how your decisions today shape the value of your practice, and your future options. This is the kind of insight most dentists never get until it’s too late.

Your Welcome Package (Free! Just Cover Shipping)

When you start your first two months of Dental Growth & Exit, I’ll send you a welcome package with tools and resources most dentists never see unless they’ve hired a high-level consultant or gone through a real valuation process.

Inside, you’ll receive:

Your First Issue of the Newsletter

A full print issue with the kind of clarity and guidance most doctors don’t get anywhere else.

Exclusive Practice-Building Resources

You’ll also find several bonus materials I’ve created and curated over the years, resources usually reserved for private clients, valuation discussions, or transition planning sessions.

They’re designed to help you:

  • understand your numbers from the outside

  • strengthen the value of your practice

  • avoid the blind spots that cost dentists the most

  • prepare long before a buyer or banker ever looks at your financials

These tools alone often spark breakthroughs for doctors who’ve been in practice 15–25 years.

A Complimentary Valuation Review & Transition Readiness Assessment

This is something I typically charge $2,500 for, but it’s included for newsletter members.

I’ll review your situation, look at your numbers through the lens of a buyer, and give you direct insight into where your practice stands today and what needs attention. Doctors often tell me this one analysis changes how they view their entire future.

Your Second Issue Next Month

By the time the second issue arrives, you’ll know whether this newsletter is giving you the clarity and confidence you’ve been missing.

And remember, you’re only covering the shipping. Everything else is on me.

What Happens After Your First Two Months

If you decide to continue after your first two issues, the subscription is $247 for the entire year. That breaks down to roughly twenty dollars a month, an incredibly small investment compared to the value of the information you’ll receive.

To put it in perspective:

  • One minor drift in overhead can cost far more than $247.

  • One small slide in case acceptance can quietly erode thousands in revenue.

  • One misread trend can reduce your future exit value by six figures.

  • One early course correction can add real margin back into your practice.

For less than the cost of one crown a year, you’re getting the exact kind of insight dentists wish they had in the middle and later stages of their career.

This newsletter is based on:

  • real valuations

  • real DSO expectations

  • real lender behavior

  • real operational patterns inside private practices

  • and real financial shifts dentists don’t see until someone points them out

Most doctors spend decades building a valuable practice and then make the last decade’s decisions without the information that matters most.

This newsletter solves that.

Your first two months are free. You’re only covering shipping.

If it brings clarity and confidence to your decisions, keep it going. If it doesn’t, you cancel, no pressure, no surprises.

Who This Newsletter Is Designed To Help

This newsletter isn’t for brand-new dentists, and it’s not for doctors who are still trying to get their footing.

It’s for established practice owners who are in the stage of their career where the decisions you make today directly shape the next decade.

If you’re a doctor who:

  • has a stable, successful practice

  • wants to grow without adding chaos

  • wants to protect the value you’ve built

  • wants to understand how buyers and banks see your numbers

  • wants options, whether you’re two years from slowing down or ten

  • wants clarity instead of guesswork

  • wants to avoid the “I wish I’d known this sooner” moment

  • and wants steady, honest guidance from someone who’s analyzed hundreds of practices

…then you’re exactly who I created this newsletter for.

It’s for the doctor who’s done the hard part, built the practice, built the reputation, built the life, and now wants to make sure the final stretch is handled with the same care and intention as the beginning.

Your Future Deserves Clarity.

Start Your First Two Months Free.

You’ve spent years building a strong, respected practice. Now make sure the next stage of your career is guided by the right information, clear, honest, and grounded in what’s actually happening in dentistry.

Your welcome package, your first issue, your second issue, and the practice-building resources… they’re all free. You’re only covering the shipping.

If the newsletter gives you the clarity and confidence you’ve been looking for, keep it going for $247 per year. If not, you cancel. No pressure, no surprises. Click below to get started.

Everything will be shipped directly to your doorstep.

And remember, doing nothing changes nothing. But one good insight can change the entire direction of your practice.

You get clarity, guidance, and two full months to decide if this helps you. Most dentists regret waiting. You won’t.


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