Published Articles
featuring Chip Fichtner
Recent Publications
March 2025: Timing an Invisible Dental Support Organization (IDSO) Partnership
November 2024: Death, Taxes & Dental Practices: The Power of Diversification
September 2024: First Half of 2024 Results: Fact vs Fiction
August 2024: Practitioner-to-Practitioner Practice Transition or IDSO Partnership?
May 2024: IDSO Partnership: The Specific Benefits for Dentists
March 2024: Top 10 Dental Practice Attributes for Highest Values
February 2024: Dentistry Unmasked: Inside the world of invisible DSOs
January 2024: Increase the Value of your Practice Real Estate With an IDSO Partner
December 2023: Changes Impacting Large Practices in 2024: High Interest Rates can be Both Good and Bad
November 2023: Practice Monetization: Do it Yourself or Retain a Professional Advisor?
October 2023: Want Less Stress, More Liquidity, Cutting Edge Tools, and More? An IDSO Might be for You.
September 2023: Why Dentists Partner with Invisible Dental Support Organizations
August 2023: The Most Valuable Practice Traits in a Short-Term Transition or Long-Term Partnership
July 2023: The Dental Trifecta, revisited
June 2023: Autonomy in DSO versus IDSO partnerships
May 2023: Silent partners for great dentists: Timing is critical. Do you need one?
February 2023: New capital flowed into dental consolidation in 2022 at a record pace
Sept 2022: The impact of inflation and higher interest rates on practice values
July 2022: Considering an IDSO partnership? Consider your age first
March 2022: Why dental practice consolidation is accelerating
July 2021: Orthodontists, pedodontists, and oral surgeons have many choices in silent partners
April 2021: Considering monetizing your practice? There’s an important deadline approaching
July 2020: The upside in invisible DSO equity
May 2020: What happens to practice values now?
February 2020: The practices that invisible DSOs value most
September 2019: Life with an invisible dental support organization partner
May 2019: ‘Invisible’ DSOs: Friend or foe
February 2025: Maximizing a Practice’s Value for an Invisible Dental Support Organization Partnership
January 2024: Dental Practice Consolidation: The Risks, Rewards, and Trends
January 2023: Advising Doctors on Monetizing a Part of Their Life’s Work
October 2021: Understanding and Profiting From the Dental Practice Consolidation Boom
June 2019: Silent Partner Allows Specialist to Focus on Patient Care
September 2024: Why thousands of implant specialists have quietly partnered with IDSOs
Winter 2021: Silent partners cut your implant bill in half, or your competitors’
Fall 2020: Silent partners are still investing in great practices
Summer 2020: Silent partners provide unique benefits for implant focused practices
September 2024: Why the largest U.S. orthodontic practices have quietly partnered with IDSOs
Nov/Dec 2020: Orthodontic practice consolidation trends accelerate — rewards and risks abound
Sept/Oct 2020: COVID-19 impact on practice values — short and long term
July/Aug 2020: The clock is ticking on practice values
March/April 2020: The value of part of your practice to a silent partner may surprise you
