Category: Dental Practice Litigation

Finding out you’re under investigation by your dental board is an alarming situation – and it’s not something you want to postpone dealing with. Even at an early stage, an investigation can raise concerns about your professional license, your practice, and your future in the profession of dentistry. To help you understand why...

When you’ve considered what you will do when you decide to leave dental practice, you may decide that you do not want to sell your business to a third-party buyer. Fortunately, practice owners have succession-planning options beyond selling the business to a third party. 

Dental practices rely on vendors for everything from equipment and software to marketing and billing support. When a vendor fails to meet their obligations by missing deliveries, providing faulty equipment, or failing to deliver services as promised, it can lead to a costly and stressful disruption of your practice’s regular operations.

Making an associate into a partial or full owner of your dental practice can feel like a natural step. However, associate buy-outs carry legal risks that can compromise your long-term plans and finances. Understanding the key areas where disputes come up—timing, valuation, and contractual protections—can protect your interests and keep the transition...

Deciding whether to rent a building or purchase your own real estate for your dental clinic can have significant legal implications for you and your practice. It’s essential to consider various factors, including your control over the space, financial and legal liability, build-out viability, long-term stability, and contract terms.

If you’re facing a dental malpractice claim, your patient’s records can become one of the most essential pieces of evidence you have to defend yourself against the patient’s allegations. As a result, protecting these records is one of the most critical steps you can take as you prepare your defense. 

In the dental field, dental support organizations (DSOs) provide non-clinical administrative support to practices. Many dentists partner with DSOs to handle the business side of their practices so they can focus on patient care.

In recent years, there has been an increasing trend of DSOs acquiring dental practices. Dentists...