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Dentist Tax Deductions You Need To Know

Contrary to popular belief, dental hygienists can be independent contractors working for a dentist—they do not have to be employees. It all depends on their contracts with their employer. If your contract says that you are an independent contractor, then you are technically self-employed. As a result, you have to file your business taxes to the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA).

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Navigating Dental Insurance: A Guide For Dentists

As a dentist, you can have different experiences in dealing with dental insurance. If your office helps coordinate the insurance plans’ coverage for customers, which many dentist offices do, to encourage customers’ loyalty, you may be dealing with multiple insurance providers in that way, as a provider of dental services. You may also have an alternative experience – that of a covered recipient.

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Dental Practice Management: Tips and Best Practices

Dental practice owners often struggle with the business management aspect of their business when they set up their own dental practice. As dental professionals, their strengths lie in their education and experience in providing dental care, not business management.

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How To Promote Dental Clinic

Marketing helps you reach potential patients, plus maintain a good, ongoing relationship with current patients. However, knowing how and where to spend your marketing budget and efforts can be difficult. Digital marketing is a critical aspect of any strategy since most people search online for medical professionals, but other methods are effective as well. An effective strategy overall is essential to achieve the best results.

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Tax Planning Strategies: Tips, Steps, Resources For Planning

There are several tax planning strategies that are recommended to reduce the amount of taxes you may have to pay. Generally, tax planning involves finding potential tax deductions or tax credits. Tax deductions reduce taxable income, while credits reduce what taxes you pay on your taxable income.

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How Much Does It Cost to Build a Dental Office?

If you are looking to start your own dental practice, you might be considering opening it up in a new community where there are no existing practices. This may mean you will need to build a new dental clinic and office and are curious about the various considerations and factors that affect what you might expect to pay, beyond the obvious construction costs.

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Monthly Bookkeeping Checklist

When you run a dental practice, it is essential to keep your financials in order. If you don’t know what money is coming in or out, or what tax obligations or other financial obligations you have, you cannot make educated financial decisions and you can run into financial difficulties, despite having a busy practice that could otherwise be successful. Patients and family always come first.

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How Much Does a Dentist Make in Canada?

Are you considering a career as a dentist and wondering how much does a dentist make in Canada?

The Canadian Dental Association describes dentistry as an “artistic as well as scientific profession. Dentists must have an artist’s aesthetic sense, an eye for detail and manual dexterity to perform precise procedures… Dentists must also be good communicators”. This range of aptitudes, plus high educational requirements, is reflected in salaries.

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The Top Ten Reasons Why It’s Time To Make Your Office Paperless

If you have been considering converting your office to paperless charts, this is a great time to take the leap. Technology has advanced rapidly in recent years with cloud-based backup systems and massive amounts of storage capabilities, alleviating the concern of what might happen if the system goes down. Trusting that the technology won’t lose any information is no longer a concern.

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