Several years in the making, "The Affluent Dentist" is a collaborative effort of Mac Winston, PPCLOAN president and chief lending officer, and members of American Dental Sales (ADS), an association of preeminent dental practice brokers and consultants with years of experience in working with dentists nationwide.
Contributors
Managing Contributor: K.M. "Mac" Winston,
President and Chief Lending Officer, PPCLOAN
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Mac Winston is president and chief lending officer for PPCLOAN, one of the nation's leading sources of bank financing for dentists, veterinarians and Allstate agents since 1998. He has over 30 years of banking experience and has specialized in lending to dentists, veterinarians, accountants, insurance agents, and other service sector professionals since 1992. In addition to having served as a member of the Practice Management Faculty of the Northwestern Dental School, Mr. Winston has also participated in the University of Texas, San Antonio, and the University of Las Vegas Dental Schools' practice management curriculums. He has published numerous articles in Dental Economics Magazine and other prominent dental publications. He graduated from Southern Methodist University with a B.B.A. in accounting and is a Certified Financial Planner. |
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Other Contributors
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Peter Ackerman, CPA; Bill E. Avery, DDS; Roy Berry; Dr. Charles Blair; Frank J. Brown, JD, LLM; John M. Cahill, MBA; Alan Clemens; Randy M. Daigler; Earl M. Douglas, DDS, MBA, BVAL; Bob Fitzgerald, CPA; Guy Jaffe; Jim Kasper; Gretchen O. Lovelace, MS, CFP, CPM; Robert J. Mallin, DS; Gene McCormick, DDS; John F. McDonnell; Evan Myers; Karen Norris, CPA; Gary Schaub; Ted Schumann, CPA, CBC, CFP, DBS; Rich Seims, DDS; Kevin A. Shea, JD; Tom Smeed; H. M. (Hy) Smith, MBA; Terry D. Watson, DDS |
I have read many dental books in the past, but The Affluent Dentist would be ranked on the top of my list. There are many insightful things that would save me time and money in the short and long term in owning a dental practice. I would highly recommend this book for anyone thinking of purchasing a practice. The advice easily saved me over $50,000 in my practice transition.
— Mike Saini
Dr. Santosh Saini
Phoenix, AZ
A comprehensive, how-to guide on buying and selling dental practices. Excellent source for dentists.
— Patrick J. Wood, Esq.
Wood and Delgado
I have reviewed the book, which is written by a compilation of authors, organizing themselves around the dominant theme of transitions. There are many transitions visited from buying your first dental practice, to associateships and partnerships, to selling all or part of your practice with good content on practice valuations, financing, retirement planning, management, performance metrics, crisis along the career timeline and more.
This is really a "how to" book of resources, connecting the dots of who can assist you in your own discovery along the way in terms of practice brokers, financers, accountants, lawyers, lease specialists and more. The book was written by some heavy weights in the industry and serves its purpose of being the most comprehensive outline of these subjects I have seen in the industry.
If I have one criticism of the book, it is that it is a technical book mapping out the territory but lacks not direction, but navigation. In other words, it tells you the things you have to consider and then by content association, who you can contact for further follow up and/or advice. If I had been asked to contribute to this book, I would have written about "who" you have to become” to be the navigator and that is the hat of the owner, the leader, the manager and the marketer. I would write about "who you have to become" to be able to wear these four hats simultaneously on one head, successfully. Over all, my own hat is off to these authors for getting it together to produce a fine product, a much needed resource.
— Dr. Dan Kingsbury
Dental Coaches Association
Just received the book at a recent dental conference and I'm passing it on to a dentist who is looking to retire.
— Mary Beth Huffman
Creative Business Strategist
