Industry Trends

Special Edition: Colorado Ruling Every DSO in America Should Be Watching
What happens when a state dental board introduces rules that could fundamentally change how DSOs support dental practices? In this special breaking-news episode of The Dental Economist Show, host CRO...
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The 2026 Mid-Year Dental Industry Outlook: Presented Live
Missed Dykema 2026? Watch our CRO, Mike Huffaker, share the findings from the 2026 Mid-Year Dental Industry Outlook live during the Dykema DSO Conference. Watch his session on demand as...
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Planet DDS Presents: The New Standard
The story in dentistry for the last decade was Consolidation. Acquire. Scale. Figure out the infrastructure later. For most groups, later has arrived, and the gaps are showing up in...
2026 Mid-Year Dental Industry Outlook
Halfway through 2026, the questions that defined the last decade of dentistry have changed. The race to add locations has given way to a harder one: running what has already...

Regulatory enforcement, court decisions, and market outlook. Once again, Brian Colao and Beth Gaddis discuss the DSO topics in the headlines and answer audience questions. Topics for this episode include:

Dykema DSO Conference Edition with Brian Colao
The premier legal and business platform for the dental support organization (DSO) industry, Dykema, has established itself as the leading collaborative engine for dental group growth. How do they continue...
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Inside the CCO Inner Circle: DSO Clinical Leaders Address Challenges
This article was written by Planet DDS and originally published in DrBiscuspid.com. Clinical leaders across DSOs are often working through many of the same operational and clinical questions but rarely...
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All Things DSO: EBITDA, Overhead, and Opportunity
The dental support organization (DSO) market may be improving, but the recovery has been slower and more uneven than many organizations anticipated. During a recent All Things DSO webinar, hosted...
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Planet DDS 2026 Deep Dive Report Reveals a Widening Performance Gap Across the Industry
Released at the most concentrated gathering of DSO capital ever assembled, new Planet DDS data exposes the operational gaps costing the industry more than half a billion dollars a year....
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