The Gap We Are Closing
Independent dentists are leaving money on the table.
The issue is not that independent dentistry is broken. It is that independent dentists have been operating without the advantages groups take for granted. The Anchor Point gives you the same data, purchasing power and peer network, with no requirement to sell your practice.
No visibility into true profitability
Most owners do not have a clear, real-time picture of their EBITDA, so they cannot see the leaks or the opportunities.
Overpaying on every supply order
Without group purchasing power, independent practices pay retail on everything from labs to supplies.
No benchmark to measure against
Is your overhead high, your hygiene production low, your new-patient count off? Without peer comparison you cannot know.
Making decisions in isolation
Hiring, expansion, equipment and fee schedules get decided without a network of trusted operators who have faced the same call.
Why Dentists Join
Four things you get from day one.
Lower your overhead immediately
- +Bulk zirconia crown pricingSame clinical quality, a fraction of the cost most independent practices pay today.
- +Significant aligner savingsVolume-based pricing passed directly to members.
- +20%+ on supplies and vendorsAcross materials and service vendors, continuously negotiated. Most members recoup their membership in the first purchase order.
Understand your real numbers
- +Quarterly EBITDA analysisKnow your actual profitability and what is driving or eroding margin.
- +Benchmarking against peer practicesOverhead, hygiene production, new patients and EBITDA compared regionally and nationally.
- +Find the profit leaksStaffing, overhead ratios, fee schedules, production mix. Purchased separately this costs $10,000 to $15,000 a year. Members get it as a core benefit.
Learn from real operators
- +Direct access to experienced ownersPeers operating at scale, facing the same challenges, willing to share what they have learned.
- +Conversations around real decisionsHiring, expansion, equipment, associates, fee strategy. With people who have been there.
- +No motivational speakersNo generic frameworks. Practitioners sharing what is driving results right now.
Direct access to the founders
- +Guidance from operators who have scaledAcquisitions, associate management, multi-location operations, transition planning.
- +Advice you can use tomorrowSpecific input on your actual situation from people who know what practice ownership looks like day to day.
- +A relationship, not a transactionBuilt as a long-term relationship between founders and members.
“The most useful conversations I’ve had about running my practice weren’t with consultants. They were with other dentists who’d already solved the problem.”
How It Is Different
Two options exist today. The Anchor Point is a third.
Dentists who want to operate more profitably are told to choose between a coaching group or a buying group. Both are partial solutions. The Anchor Point combines the best of both and goes further.
Expensive and hard to measure
High time commitment, unclear ROI
- +Peer learning and accountability
- —Time-intensive meeting formats
- —$5,000 to $20,000+ annual cost
- —No purchasing advantages
- —No financial benchmarking
Discounts without strategy
Transactional
- +Supply and vendor discounts
- —No financial analysis or benchmarking
- —No peer community
- —No strategic guidance
- —No path to greater scale
The complete independent advantage
Combines both and adds what neither offers
- +Immediate overhead reduction
- +Quarterly EBITDA analysis and benchmarking
- +Peer network of real operators
- +Direct founder access
- +Stay 100% independent, no obligation to sell
- +A path toward partnership if you want it
Who This Is For
Built for growth-minded independents.
Owners with 1 to 5+ locations
Single-location GP or small multi-location group, the network is built around your scale and your priorities.
Business-focused dentists
You care about the clinical side and you want to understand and improve the business behind it.
Doctors who want to stay independent
You are not looking to sell or hand someone the wheel. You want to operate better on your own terms with better tools.
This is not a partnership or acquisition program. The Anchor Point is for dentists who want to stay independent and operate as well as any group practice in the country.
Some members eventually explore full partnership with Rising Tide. That conversation is always available, always on your terms, and never the price of admission. Many members join and remain independent indefinitely.
A private network. By invitation only.
If you are a growth-minded independent practice owner, we would like to learn more about you. Everything you share is kept strictly confidential.