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July 1997
Volume 31, Issue 7

THE EDITOR'S CORNER

Taking Stock of Management Service

EUGENE L. GOTTLIEB DDS

A number of management service organizations are forming, and one is already active. If enough of these companies achieve the affiliations necessary to start operations and the capitalization necessar...

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A Consultant's View of Management Service Organizations

PAUL D. ZUELKE

There are more than 9,000 practicing orthodontists in this country. There about half a dozen management service organizations. These MSOs have yet to enroll even 5% of the orthodontic population, and ...

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What To Do When a Management Service Organization Comes Calling

JOHN K. McGILL MBA, JD, CPA, W. CHARLES BLAIR DDS

The following article is reprinted by permission from The Blair/McGill Advisory, a monthly dental practice management and financial newsletter published by Blair, McGill & Company, 4601 Charlotte ...

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THE READERS' CORNER

Management Service Organizations

PETER M. SINCLAIR DDS, MSD

Do you have an arrangement with a management service organization? Although 25% of the respondents said they had been approached individually by an MSO (beyond a mass mailing), only 3% had actually si...

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Financial Independence with or Without Management Service

TODD S. CALLENDER ESQ., R. SAM CALLENDER DDS, MS

For the past several years, the most hotly debated issue in orthodontics has been the development of management service organizations. Most MSOs involve the same basic concept, painted in different te...

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Doing The Math

EUGENE L. GOTTLIEB DDS

When considering the pros and cons of affiliation with a management service organization, an orthodontist would be prudent to do the math. Stock Math Stock is a major part of the MSO transaction--afte...

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Effect of Tacking Time on Bond Strength of Light-Cured Adhesives

LARRY J. OESTERLE DDS, MS, WILLIAM CRAIG SHELLHART DDS, MS, GARY K. BELANGER DDS

Visible-light-cured adhesives have become increasingly popular among orthodontists. The unlimited working time of these adhesives allows the clinician to position the bracket as desired until initiati...

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The Eureka Spring: A New Interarch Force Delivery System

JOHN DEVINCENZO DDS

Before the introduction of extraoral force by Kloehn in the 1950s,1,2 interarch force was used extensively in the treatment of Class II and Class III malocclusions.3 For the next 25 years, however, ma...

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