In short
A general dentist who owns the practices the systems run in.
I practice in, and own, the dental offices the systems run in. Around them I have built one connected system: operating companies that do the work, a shared data plane that measures it, and a fleet of software agents that carry the repetitive parts — under rules that keep money, patient data and anything irreversible in human hands. Nothing gets written up as advice until it has survived inside a practice where my payroll is on the line. How that system fits together is on the overview; the principles behind it are on Method; the rules that enforce them are on Logic.
Credentials and verification
Checkable, not asserted.
Every item here can be confirmed against a source outside this website. That is the point of the section.
Qualifications
Doctor of Dental Surgery (DDS), UT Health San Antonio School of Dentistry. Master of Business Administration with a healthcare concentration. Fellow of the Academy of General Dentistry. Bachelor of Science in Construction Management, Brigham Young University, cum laude.
Credentials, licensure and permits
- Fellow of the Academy of General Dentistry
- MBA, healthcare
- More than eighteen years in practice, twelve in hospital dentistry, over 1,000 hospital cases
- Hospital and surgery-center privileges, with hospital call and inpatient consultation; general anesthesia given by an anesthesiologist or nurse anesthetist
- State permits for moderate sedation, including IV, where he practices
- Licensed in five states
Licenses and sedation permits are verifiable through the issuing state dental boards. Nitrous oxide and minimal sedation permits; ACLS and PALS certified.
Professional membership
Member of the American Dental Association and the Academy of General Dentistry.
Operating history
More than eighteen years in practice, including hospital-based, sedation and special-needs dentistry, with hospital and ambulatory surgery-center privileges for dental cases under general anesthesia. The construction management background is why the same company that builds the systems also builds the offices.
Subject standing
What I have direct experience of — and what I do not.
Authority is subject-specific. These are the areas where the experience behind the writing is first-hand, stated plainly so a reader can discount the rest accordingly.
Clinical dentistry
General dentistry in practice, including hospital-based treatment, sedation and general anesthesia, and special-needs care. Clinical content is written or reviewed against that experience, never in place of a reader's own clinician.
Practice operations and ownership
Revenue cycle, claim denial and recovery, insurance verification, front-desk workflow, supply and inventory control, staffing and production benchmarks — all from operating the practices, not from consulting on them.
Transitions and valuation
Practice acquisition, DSO offer structures, valuation method and exit timing, from both sides of the table as an owner-operator.
Where a subject sits outside that — financial markets, biotech pipelines, test preparation, general health topics — my role is editorial and operational rather than clinical or professional expertise in that field. That distinction is stated on the properties concerned rather than blurred here.
Editorial standards
What a byline on these sites does and does not mean.
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Authored or reviewed — and the difference is stated.
Where a piece is written by someone else and checked by me, it says so. "Reviewed by" is not used as a synonym for "written by", and neither is used to imply clinical endorsement of a reader's individual situation.
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Nothing here is individual clinical, financial or legal advice.
Content on health and money subjects is general information. It does not establish a doctor-patient relationship, does not replace your own dentist, physician, accountant or attorney, and should not be acted on as though it did.
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Commercial interest is disclosed where it exists.
I own the companies named on this page. When an article discusses a service one of them sells, that relationship is disclosed on the page itself. Risus Advisers represents sellers and is not paid by buyers; that is a structural commitment, not a preference.
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Claims come from operations, and corrections are made in place.
Operational numbers — collection rates, denial recovery, production benchmarks, supply cost, workflow timings — come from practices and systems I run, measured through one warehouse rather than estimated. Claims outside that scope do not and cannot: regulatory dates, market data, test percentiles and clinical guidance are sourced to the primary record on the page that makes the claim — the FDA, the registry, the test administrator, the published literature — not to anything I operate. When something is found to be wrong it is corrected on the page rather than quietly removed, on the same principle the Method page applies to the systems themselves.
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No patient information, ever.
Nothing written for publication draws on identifiable patient information. Operational examples are aggregate or structural. The boundary that enforces this across the whole system is written up on the Logic page.
Contact
Corrections, questions, or a conversation.
If something on any of these sites is wrong, tell me and it gets fixed. If you are an advisor, an owner considering a transition, or a practice weighing operational change, use the contact form. Direct email: blane@avantmarketingrevolution.com. Please do not send patient information to either.
How this site is paid for
No sponsors, no display ads, no paid tiers.
There are no sponsored pieces, no display advertising and no paid tiers. If an affiliate link ever appears it will be for something I actually use, it will be disclosed next to the link, and it comes out when I stop using it. The businesses linked from this site are my own. The commitment I am willing to put in writing is that this site will never earn more than the work it describes.
Registration
Why the full clinical pieces ask you to register.
The cases and conditions writing is for clinicians. Registration checks an NPI against the public NPPES registry for a dental taxonomy and confirms the email address by sending a one-time link. The email and NPI are kept so you can sign in again and so an NPI cannot be registered twice; they are used for sign-in links and nothing else — no newsletter, not shared, not sold.