Dental school taught you teeth. Nobody taught you business.
DOC is a free-to-join community and education platform for dentists and dental students who want their own practice, whether that means building one from the ground up or buying one that already exists.
DOC is for you if:
You've hit the associate ceiling and assumed your student debt made ownership impossible (it doesn't)
You're staring at a practice listing with no way to tell if the numbers are real
You want to build a dental practice from scratch and have never signed a commercial lease in your life
You're a dental student who wants a head start on the business side before graduation
You want real conversations with dentists who are actually pursuing ownership
You already own a practice and want sharper answers on growth, a second location, or your exit, plus a room where your experience helps the next owner.
Step-by-step training that walks you through building or buying a practice
Lessons run as long as the topic needs and not a minute more. Most are under ten. Each one is taught by an expert in that exact domain and ends with a deliverable: a checklist, a template, a number you now know how to find. Watch a lesson between patients. Walk away with something real.
The shared core every future owner needs. By the end, you'll read a P&L without sweating it, know which entity structure fits your situation, understand how SBA lending actually works, and have your advisory team vetted before your first bank meeting.
For the dentist building a practice from the ground up. By the end, you'll know how to pick the right site, avoid contractors who've never built out a dental bay, and open your doors on schedule.
For the dentist buying a practice that already runs. By the end, you'll know how to spot a real deal, audit broker numbers, close clean, and retain the team and patients through your first 90 days.
Our Paid Membership unlocks both the Startup and Acquisition tracks, so you get full access to the complete playbook without having to choose upfront.
The education and network you need to own a practice
Membership gets you into the community and access to the Foundations course for free. When you're ready to build or buy, in-depth training is available too.
Free membership
- A verified network of dental students, associates, and practice owners
- Live AMAs (ask-me-anything sessions) with experts
- Ongoing peer discussions
- 11-module Foundations course
Paid Membership
- Full dental startup & acquisition courses
- Advanced resources and guides
- One membership, both tracks
Both tracks included, with content updated every year.
Get advice from dentists on the same path, and owners who've already walked it.
Every member is a verified dental professional with a real name and a real profile, from students to associates to owners ten years in. Ask the question you'd be embarrassed to ask in that giant Facebook group, or compare notes with someone six months ahead of you on the same path.
You learned it the hard way. Help the next one learn it faster.
DOC isn't only for dentists getting started. Owners join to pressure-test their own next move, whether that's a second location, a partner, or an exit, and to share what they'd do differently with dentists a few years behind them. Foundations covers reading a P&L, KPIs, and owner dashboards. It's free for owners too.
Taught by people who do this for a living
Sixteen founding faculty built this curriculum with us. Dental practice acquisition advisors, dental CPAs, attorneys, demographics analysts, marketing operators, insurance and credentialing experts. Each one teaches only the thing they're verifiably great at.
You have enough places to get bad advice.
Most practice ownership resources put profits, algorithms, or sponsors ahead of real answers. DOC is built differently.
Built by an operator, not a content brand.
Justin has spent over a decade inside dental operations, managing 30+ locations for dental groups across the US, including leading a 23-practice DSO across five states. For the past several years he has focused on helping independent practices compete, build, and grow on their own terms.
He built DOC because dentists chasing ownership deserved education nobody paid to put in front of them. Sponsors fund the platform. They don't write a word of it.
Here's where we are.
Production
173 lessons across three tracks.
Doors open
Foundations free to every dentist.
The first 1,000
Live AMAs, new lessons, and 1,000 dentists on the path to ownership.
Join free and get in today. Foundations is free, and so is finally understanding what your CPA is talking about.
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