Launching October 2026

Dental school taught you teeth. Nobody taught you business.

DOC is a free online community and education platform for dentists and dental students who want their own practice, whether that means building a practice from the ground up or buying one that already exists.

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Why DOC

You spent 8 years learning to save teeth. Now you want to own a practice, and suddenly everyone's speaking a different language.

SBA loans. Letters of intent. Quality of earnings. Cap rates. Build-out budgets. You could piece it together from podcasts, Facebook groups, and that one classmate who bought a practice and won't stop talking about it. Or you could learn it the way you learned clinical: structured, sequenced, and taught by people who actually know what they're doing.

That's DOC. The business education dental school skipped.

What DOC is not

You have enough places to get bad advice.

SPONSORED
Not another Facebook group

Anonymous opinions, ranked by an algorithm, interrupted by ads. No one is accountable for what they told you.

Here: verified dentists, named faculty, sourced answers.
Not a buddies WhatsApp group

Six friends comparing guesses. Warm, well-meant, and capped by whatever the six of you happen to know.

Here: advisors, lenders, and lawyers who close these deals weekly.
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Presented by our partner
Lesson reviewed by sponsor
No sponsored content

Sponsors don't write lessons, review lessons, or influence what gets taught. Nobody buys their way into the curriculum.

Here: every module authored independently by our founding faculty.

Your education is the product. You are not.

The platform

Three tracks. One goal: your name on the door.

Free
Foundations

The shared core every future owner needs. Reading a P&L without sweating. Entity structures. Lending. Building your advisory team. 11 modules, and it costs you nothing.

11
Modules
Paid track · Coming soon
Startup Track

For the dentist who wants to build it from the ground up. Site selection, design, equipment, construction, hiring, and opening the doors. 11 modules.

11
Modules
Paid track · Coming soon
Acquisition Track

For the dentist who'd rather buy something that already works. Finding deals, reading the numbers, due diligence, closing, and not losing the team or the patients in month one. 13 modules.

13
Modules
Inside a lesson

6 to 10 minutes. One concept. Something you can actually use.

Every lesson is short because you're busy and long because it needs to be, never the other way around. 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.

Inside a DOC lesson
The curriculum at a glance

35 modules across three tracks.

Every module is built around a specific decision the learner has to make. The full curriculum was designed before a single lesson was recorded.

Foundations · 11 modules
01
Is Ownership Right For You?
02
From Clinician to Owner: The Mindset Shift
03
Personal & Business Credit
04
How Dental Practice Lending Actually Works
05
Personal Financial Readiness for Owners
06
Choosing Your Business Structure
07
HIPAA and Compliance Basics
08
Demographics and Market Analysis
09
Insurance Contracting Strategy
10
KPIs and Owner Dashboards
11
The Path Decision (Capstone)
Startup · 11 modules
01
Location Selection and Site Evaluation
02
Commercial Lease Negotiation
03
Working with Brokers, Landlords, and Reps
04
Floor Plan and Workflow Design
05
Construction Budgeting and Project Management
06
Equipment Selection and Vendor Negotiation
07
Building Your Tech Stack
08
Insurance Credentialing for Startups
09
Hiring Your First Team
10
Pre-Open Marketing and Patient Pipeline
11
Grand Opening and First 90 Days
Acquisition · 13 modules
01
Finding Practices for Sale
02
Initial Practice Screening
03
Practice Valuation Fundamentals
04
Financial Due Diligence
05
Operational and Clinical Due Diligence
06
LOIs and Offer Strategy
07
The Purchase Agreement
08
Financing the Acquisition
09
Closing and the Tech Stack Transition
10
Inherited Associates and Seller Transitions
11
Staff Retention Through the Transition
12
Patient Retention and Day-One Operations
13
First 90 Days Post-Acquisition
Founding Faculty

Taught by people who do this for a living. Not influencers. Not theorists.

Sixteen founding faculty built this curriculum with us. 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. Nobody's teaching lending because they had a slot to fill.

Brian Hanks

Brian Hanks

Owner
Dental Buyer Advocates
Eric Masson

Eric Masson

Partner
Eskow Law Group
Joe Cavaretta

Joe Cavaretta

CEO
Cavaretta Consulting Group
Caleb Gussner

Caleb Gussner

Director of Business Development
Duckett Ladd
Jim Moore

Jim Moore

Partner Advisor
Allworth Financial
Kent Miller

Kent Miller

President
Dentagraphics
Nicole Toudouze

Nicole Toudouze

Founder
Transcendental Marketing Agency
Maritza Duran

Maritza Duran

CEO & Founder
MDent Consulting Services
Thomas Terronez

Thomas Terronez

CEO & Founder
Medix Dental
Dan Gleissner

Dan Gleissner

Founding Partner
ALLY Medical Partners
Kiera Dent

Kiera Dent

CEO & Founder
Dental A Team
Ben Tuinei

Ben Tuinei

Founder
Veritas Dental Resources
Amy Wood

Amy Wood

CEO
Copper Penny Consulting
Don Hobbs

Don Hobbs

Strategic Vendor Partnerships
Cavaretta Consulting Group
Jeff Van Hess

Jeff Van Hess

Senior Buildout Advisor
Cavaretta Consulting Group
Caryn Schroud

Caryn Schroud

Development & Project Management Expert
Cavaretta Consulting Group
The community

A room full of verified dentists. Zero anonymous weirdos.

Every member is a verified dental professional with a real name, a real profile, and a real goal. Ask the question you'd be embarrassed to ask in that giant Facebook group. Compare notes with people six months ahead of you on the same path. No lurkers selling you things. No hot takes from someone who may or may not own a practice, or teeth.

The DOC community
Justin Clements, Head of DOC
Who built this

Built by an operator, not a content brand.

Justin Clements
Head of DOC

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.

Summer 2026

Recording

173 lessons, all getting made right now.

We are here
October 2026

Doors open

Foundations free to every dentist.

Year one

The path to ownership

Cohorts, community, and 1,000 dentists on the path to ownership.

Your name. The door. Let's go.

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