THE FIELD MANUALWORKING NOTES, FILED AS WRITTEN

Learn the instrument.

Working notes on reading dental markets, written by the team that builds the engine. The actual numbers, the actual method, and where each one can mislead you.

3 ENTRIES ON FILE · UPDATED 02 JUL 2026 From the research desk
ENTRY 01

How to read a dental market in ninety seconds

An analyst's pass through one real report: boundary, office density, named competitors, referral structure, fee bands, and what every figure says against its benchmark.

6 MIN READ02 JUL 2026
ENTRY 02

Medicaid fee floors: the most underused number in dentistry

The same crown code pays $252 in Texas and $1,513 in Delaware. What a published floor is, why it moves 6x, and how to read the spread.

6 MIN READ02 JUL 2026
ENTRY 03

The real cost of a bad location

Build-outs run $350,000 to $700,000 and the directories you scout with are wrong about half the time. The arithmetic of the mistake, worked out.

5 MIN READ02 JUL 2026
ENTRY 04

More entries in progress

The desk files new working notes as the engine grows. No publishing schedule is promised; nothing ships before it is checked against real reports.

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