--- title: "Dental Practice Ownership: It's Not for Everyone Anymore" description: Is practice ownership right for you? In our experiences, owning a dental practice isn't right for every doctor. The non-owner doctor finds fulfillment in the form of doing clinical dentistry and leaving the ownership challenges to others. 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Dental students and practicing dentists may sometimes consider how deciding not to own can be used to their advantage, how negotiating contracts can maximize their leverage as non-owners, and why the ownership model of ages past is not working for everyone anymore. First and foremost, deciding on which route to take starts with identifying which profile of doctor you are... ***Click to read the rest of this article on *[www.DrBicuspid.com](https://www.drbicuspid.com/index.aspx?sec=sup&sub=pmt&pag=dis&ItemID=324350)*. 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