Happy New Year. I hope this post finds you well and healthy. The student loan payment and interest freeze have gone on much longer than expected with the most recent “final” pause set to expire this month being extended until May.
Since most of the readers of this blog are interested in student loans, you are also probably interested in personal finance. While it’s...
I am asked this question often. There are several factors to consider when choosing a profession and two of them are the return on investment you expect to receive from obtaining the education and the suspected level of personal satisfaction or job fulfillment you would expect to achieve while working. The latter is much more difficult to quantify as one can find satisfaction from multiple...
Over the last decade, I have designed and built many websites using WordPress and Squarespace. For general dentists, the best platform for their websites is self-hosted WordPress. I wrote a guide about why WordPress should be chosen and you can read it here.
Once you decide to use WordPress, you will need to choose a hosting provider. I have used many services to host websites. In the...
What is WordPress?
It is my belief that without exception, every single dental website should be powered by WordPress.
WordPress is a content management system (CMS) created and managed by Automattic. While Automattic owns WordPress, WordPress is an open-source project that is free to download and use. Since its official release in 2003, WordPress has become the most popular content...
This project was inspired by a blog post authored in 2014 titled “Dentistry Sucks”. The post has accumulated more than a thousand comments and I discovered it during a Google search when I was trying to connect with others who find this career choice particularly challenging. I enjoy practicing dentistry, but do feel that I knew too little about the profession prior to committing to applying...
The COVID crisis effects on student loans continues. This pandemic has highlighted a complete lack of communication between the Department of Education and the loan servicers. You may have noticed that your federal student loans were automatically placed into forbearance last week.
My loans are held with FedLoan and they automatically placed my account into an emergency forbearance in 2017...
The last two weeks have brought many changes to student loans. I have delayed publishing any information regarding these changes because the details of a policy was yet to be defined. COVID-19 has interrupted our lives and the dental profession has many unanswered questions regarding how we will move forward during and after this crisis. Many readers are aware that student loans held by the...
I believe blogs are powerful tools, and we would all benefit from writing one. I began writing at OneLooseTooth.com in 2013, and it has resulted in several opportunities that I would not have had a chance to pursue otherwise. Before One Loose Tooth, I was writing as the Engaging Dentist (a site I deleted while in dental school). In 2014, 2015, and 2016, I compiled a list of the best dental...
There are very few books published by practicing dentists about dental practice management. In 2019, Dr. Travis Campbell published his first book titled The Practice Whisperer. His goal in “writing this book was to help others avoid similar mistakes and learn ways to grow professionally”.
Dr. Campbell graduated from Baylor College of Dentistry in 2009, and opened a dental...
It is typically recommended to delay home ownership until after a practice purchase because the practice generates income, while the home does not. Furthermore, ownership of a person’s primary residency is often more of an emotional transaction (it is a lifestyle decision) as opposed to a financial one. With this in mind, it is often wiser to purchase a practice before purchasing a home...