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Burch Dental Partners: Revitalizing the notion of what a DSO can be By Pete Mercer
Finding success in the dental industry is not easy. That romanticism that you picked up in dental school can fizzle out rather quickly, especially when you are operating on your own. One dental group, Burch Dental Partners, is trying to change that by providing doctors with the experience they envisioned in dental school.
leadership teams. There is hygiene focus at every level of the practice. Dr. Jeffrey Burch said, “My goal in life as a practitioner and a leader is to help prevent people from needing periodontal surgery in the first place. We do this by treating periodontal disease at its earliest stages in the pediatric and general dental offices. Periodontal disease is the most common disease in the world, and we can prevent its progression.” This approach to treatment is designed to help patients understand the mouth/body connection so that they can better understand what it means to be healthy. Dr. Burch said. “We take a medical approach to our hygiene department, and we have a unique model – we treat patients from birth to death.”
The clinician’s DSO Burch Dental Partners is a clinically focused, multidisciplinary dental network based in the Midwest – 12 locations in Illinois, one in Wisconsin – that has been operating since 2007 with a mix of periodontics, pediatrics, and general dentistry. Dr. Jeffrey Burch – a periodontist – and his partners own and operate this hygiene-centric practice. Besides clinical practice, hygienists play a huge role in office management and
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Part of what makes Burch Dental unique to doctors and its partners is the long-term outlook and commitment to the future. Instead of the typical DSO owner path, where they practice for a few years and ultimately sell to a larger brand, Burch is on a crusade to improve on the DSO model. A sort of DSO 3.0. Perhaps more accurately, Dr. Burch is on a mission to revitalize the notion of what a DSO can be. His reasoning is
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