DSO
Difference
DSO
Difference
DSO
Difference
- Competitive Compensation
Most new dentists graduate with school loans they are anxious to pay off. Dental Support Organizations help ease that burden through competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits, with some even offering loan repayment assistance. By partnering with a DSO, you also avoid the substantial financial risks that come with starting your own practice — setting yourself up for long-term financial and professional success.
- Competitive Compensation
Most new dentists graduate with school loans they are anxious to pay off. Dental Support Organizations help ease that burden through competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits, with some even offering loan repayment assistance. By partnering with a DSO, you also avoid the substantial financial risks that come with starting your own practice — setting yourself up for long-term financial and professional success.
- Increased Focus on Patient Care
Dental Support Organizations empower dentists to focus on what matters most: treating patients. With a DSO partner managing the administrative, marketing and business sides of the dental practice, you can dedicate your time to caring for patients and pursuing your passion — not paperwork.
- Non-Clinical and Financial Support
DSOs provide a variety of non-clinical services to dentists including facility maintenance, IT and software support, supply procurement, HR, accounting and marketing, to name a few. By handling back-office administration, the DSO frees dentists to concentrate on clinical care.
- Increased Focus on Patient Care
Dental Support Organizations empower dentists to focus on what matters most: treating patients. With a DSO partner managing the administrative, marketing and business sides of the dental practice, you can dedicate your time to caring for patients and pursuing your passion — not paperwork.
- Non-Clinical and Financial Support
DSOs provide a variety of non-clinical services to dentists including facility maintenance, IT and software support, supply procurement, HR, accounting and marketing, to name a few. By handling back-office administration, the DSO frees dentists to concentrate on clinical care.
- Continuing Education
Graduating from dental school doesn’t mean graduating from learning. Clinical excellence and quality, state-of-the-art patient care go hand in hand — and DSOs are committed to ensuring their supported dentists have ongoing opportunities to expand their knowledge and skills through access to platforms for continuous learning.
- Continuing Education
Graduating from dental school doesn’t mean graduating from learning. Clinical excellence and quality, state-of-the-art patient care go hand in hand — and DSOs are committed to ensuring their supported dentists have ongoing opportunities to expand their knowledge and skills through access to platforms for continuous learning.
- Mentorship
Transitioning from dental student to dental professional often comes with a steep learning curve. Imagine doing that first procedure all by yourself — a bit scary, right? Now imagine that procedure with a great mentor by your side. The mentorship of an experienced dentist can often be the difference between a first year to remember, and one to forget. Dental Support Organizations are inherently structured to provide dentists at any stage of their career access to peer support and mentoring. For new dentists, that means a helping hand in those early days when you need it the most.
- Access to Latest Technology
Technology is revolutionizing the dental industry. What may be the latest and greatest one day can quickly be supplanted by new innovations the next. Staying competitive as a dentist means staying updated on the latest technology. Whether through state-of-the-art tools including AI for diagnosis and treatment planning, or through computer-aided design and manufacturing to aid in providing the highest quality patient care, DSOs typically invest in continuous R&D so you can stay abreast of new protocols, equipment, treatments and practice management tools.
- Work-Life Balance
As a new dentist, growing your expertise as a clinician is a top priority. DSOs give you the freedom to jumpstart your career with all the support you need to acclimate to professional life — and none of the constant stress that comes with managing the business side of a practice. Thanks to mentor support, on-the-job learning and the assurance of great pay and benefits, you’ll be better positioned to enjoy your first years as a practicing clinician with a healthy work-life balance.
- Location Flexibility
Have you always dreamed of practicing in a particular region? Do you feel called to work with underprivileged patients but aren’t sure where to start? There’s a DSO for that! Opportunities within DSOs range from large organizations with practice locations across the country, to smaller, regional organizations, to specialty DSOs whose dentists focus on orthodontics, oral surgery, or other specialty. If you can dream it, there’s a Dental Support Organization out there to help you achieve it.
- Work-Life Balance
As a new dentist, growing your expertise as a clinician is a top priority. DSOs give you the freedom to jumpstart your career with all the support you need to acclimate to professional life — and none of the constant stress that comes with managing the business side of a practice. Thanks to mentor support, on-the-job learning and the assurance of great pay and benefits, you’ll be better positioned to enjoy your first years as a practicing clinician with a healthy work-life balance.
- Location Flexibility
Have you always dreamed of practicing in a particular region? Do you feel called to work with underprivileged patients but aren’t sure where to start? There’s a DSO for that! Opportunities within DSOs range from large organizations with practice locations across the country, to smaller, regional organizations, to specialty DSOs whose dentists focus on orthodontics, oral surgery, or other specialty. If you can dream it, there’s a Dental Support Organization out there to help you achieve it.
- Paths to Ownership
Dental Support Organizations offer a variety of career paths, from directing clinical operations to practice ownership to positions within executive management. Ownership pathways vary by DSO. Typically, an associate works for several years as an employee of the professional corporation and then may be offered the opportunity to buy in through shares over time. While DSOs have different ownership structures, typically ownership can be obtained through corporate stock ownership; stock ownership in the clinical side of the local practice; or ownership in the business side of the practice.
- Networking & Collaboration
Remember all those nights in dental school, staying up late together studying for that final exam? That network of classmates — of friends — was critical to your success as a student, right? That doesn’t change as a professional clinician. In fact, collaboration and networking are more important than ever. By partnering with a Dental Support Organization, new dentists have access to peer networks through which you can share best practices, commiserate over your challenges, celebrate your successes and develop a professional support group that will endure through your dental career. The first years after dental school can often be isolating for new dentists, but at DSOs, we’re all in it together.
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