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If your practice is producing well but your take-home income doesn’t reflect it, the problem almost certainly isn’t one big thing — and it almost certainly isn’t you.
In practices producing $1 million to $5 million, the income leaks out through five specific places most owners have never had a reason to examine closely. The Dental Income Recovery Protocol™ is built around all five.

The plan filling your schedule may not be the plan paying you.
Production is vanity if it never becomes cash.
An empty chair still costs you everything except the production.
The leak isn’t the big equipment purchase. It’s the closet.
How you pay yourself may be quietly costing you the most.

Most practice owners treat insurance reimbursements as a fixed cost of doing business — a write-off you accept to keep the chairs full. But here’s what surprises nearly everyone: through a practice called network leasing, you can be paid under a fee schedule you never knowingly agreed to. The same crown might reimburse at $850 under one plan, $750 under another, and $675 under a third — for the exact same work.
Do the math on just ten crowns a month at that wrong spread, and it’s roughly $21,000 a year leaking out — from one procedure, before you even look at hygiene, exams, or anything else. In practices this size, the full payer-mix leak often runs well beyond that.
Pillar 1 traces every payment back to the real fee schedules controlling it — the step almost no one ever takes — so you can see exactly where you’re being underpaid and what to do about it.
Your production reports look strong. The schedule is busy. But the money that actually lands in your account is quietly less than what you produced — and the gap doesn’t feel like a problem, because nothing looks broken.
If your collection rate is running just two or three points light, that’s real money walking out the door. In a practice collecting $1.2 million, that’s roughly $24,000 to $36,000 a year. And once a balance ages past ninety days, the odds of ever collecting it drop sharply.
Pillar 2 finds the exact size of your collection gap and the specific balances slipping through — turning production you’ve already earned back into cash you actually keep.


A cancellation here, a gap there — it feels like the normal rhythm of running a practice. Easy to wave off. But the math is unforgiving: when a chair sits empty, your assistant is still paid, the rent is still due, and the lights are still on. The only thing that disappeared is the production.
Just one cancellation a day can cost a practice somewhere between $20,000 and $70,000 a year in lost production. Most owners never see it, because it never shows up as a bill — it shows up as nothing, which is exactly why it stays invisible.
Pillar 3 maps where your capacity is actually leaking and what it’s costing you — so the chair time you’re already paying for stops going to waste.
When owners think about overhead, they picture the dramatic costs — the equipment, the build-out, the big line items. But the real leak is usually the quiet stuff that never feels like a decision. Supplies are the perfect example.
Let your supply costs drift just two points above where they should be, and in a practice this size that’s around $24,000 a year — spread across hundreds of small orders, so it never feels like a real choice. It just quietly becomes the new normal, year after year.
Pillar 4 benchmarks each overhead category against where it should actually be for a practice your size — surfacing the creep that’s become invisible and showing you exactly how much it’s costing.


This is the one almost no owner has had modeled properly. How you take money out of the practice — your salary, your distributions, your entity structure, your retirement vehicles — determines how much of what you earn you actually keep after taxes. Most owners set this up once, years ago, and never revisit it.
The wrong structure can cost you real money every year in unnecessary taxes and lost retirement capacity — often $10,000 to $30,000 or more, depending on how the practice is set up. It’s the most technical of the five pillars, and the most commonly left unexamined.
Pillar 5 models how you’re currently paying yourself against how you should be — so the money you’ve already earned stops being lost to a structure no one ever optimized.
I’m Michael Casale, a CPA with more than twenty years in corporate finance — at international accounting firms, at national banks, and as the Chief Financial Officer of multi-million-dollar companies. That’s a fundamentally different discipline than tax preparation. As a CFO, I hunt for where money is leaking and fix it in real time, before it costs you more — and almost no dental practice has ever had someone with that background look at its numbers.
I built the Dental Income Recovery Protocol™ to bring that discipline to dental practices, and I back it with a $25,000 minimum recovery floor, guaranteed in writing.

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