Whether you’ve just graduated and want to skip the step of working in another dentist’s office or you’ve been working in one and want to strike out on your own, there are a few things you’ll have to consider. The basic factors of setting up your own office will be one of the most obvious of those. You’ll need to find a location, outfit it with all of the necessary dental equipment, get carpeting and chairs for the waiting room, and hire staff like hygienists and receptionists. This requires a substantial investment when done from scratch, and it can be hard to find the necessary financing for an unproven start-up venture.
Even more importantly than setting up a dentist’s office is being able to get people into the chairs. Gaining new customers is often difficult for an office that doesn’t yet have a reputation. Even if you’ve been a dentist for 20 years, people will assume you’re new when they see an unfamiliar office pop up. While this can be overcome with plenty of advertising, the office itself will be new to people and this can make them reluctant to come in.
Fortunately, there is a way to quickly bypass all of these start-up issues. You can buy an established dental practice for sale in Arizona through a broker like Western Practice Sales. This allows you to gain an office that’s already completely equipped and that may even have some of the original staff still available. Typically, existing practices have good locations and equipment that is in good working order, though it may not be this year’s model.
Buying a dental practice for sale in Arizona also takes care of the crucial task of finding customers. Existing practices already have patients, so you’ll have a good base to start with. Assuming you keep them satisfied, they’ll keep coming back and will even start telling their friends how great the new dentist is. This will bring in more clients. It is likely that you’ll need to do some advertising to increase business further, but the hardest part will have already been done for you.
