The Dental Money Model Get the book $24.99

First edition · 2026 · For independent clinics

Your clinic isn’t short of patients.
It’s short of everything behind them.

A 155-page playbook that rebuilds what happens after the enquiry — the offer, the payment, the follow-up — so the advertising you already pay for finally pays you back. Run it from ninety minutes a week.

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Cover of The Dental Money Model: a playbook for dental clinics
  • 155 pages
  • 21 chapters
  • 34 figures & tables
  • 90-day install plan
  • 1 page per team role

Chapter One · The diagnosis

Most clinics can say what they spent on ads.
Few can say what a started case cost.

A patient who books a free consultation and never starts costs exactly as much to win as one who does. So the number that decides whether advertising grows your clinic or quietly drains it isn’t cost per lead. It’s advertising spend divided by patients who actually start treatment.

In the book’s worked example — a three-chair clinic spending $2,500 a month on social — ten aligner enquiries arrive. At a one-in-five start rate that’s two starts, so $1,250 of advertising sits behind each one. The case itself earns about $2,200 in profit.

That’s 1.8 to 1 — against a safe minimum of three to one. And the road to three to one is not cheaper clicks.

Fig. 3 — What a started case costs, and what it earns
1 in 10 · 1 start
0.9 : 1
1 in 5 · 2 starts
1.8 : 1
3 in 10 · 3 starts
2.6 : 1
1 in 2 · 5 starts
4.4 : 1

▲ Three to one — the floor before more advertising grows anything

Profit per case is fixed. Only the advertising behind each start changes. Figures are one illustrative worked example in US dollars — none is a benchmark. Chapter 1 shows you how to replace every one with your own.

Two minutes

Run the number on your own clinic.

This is the first calculation in the book. Most owners have never done it. Nothing is sent anywhere — it runs in your browser.

Start rate
20%
Advertising behind each started case
$1,250
Profit per started case
$2,200
Monthly profit from this campaign
$4,400

1.8 : 1

Below the three-to-one floor. Every extra dollar of advertising at this ratio makes the problem bigger, not smaller. The book fixes the ratio before it touches the budget.

Chapter Two · The plan

The whole book is five decisions.

Each one answers a specific problem the first chapter finds in your numbers. The rest of the book is how to install them, in order, without disrupting the dentistry.

DECISION ONE

Build the offer before you buy more patients

Stop selling your main elective treatment as a treatment with a price — which invites patients to compare you line by line with the clinic down the road. Sell it as a named programme in three tiers, at one fee that never moves, with three written promises that take the fear out of saying yes. Costs nothing in advertising and improves every enquiry already arriving.

Answers: treatment sold as a price

DECISION TWO

Make the first step worth paying for

The free consultation gives way to a small, credited assessment fee. People who pay something turn up and take the next step seriously; “free” attracts people who do neither. But you don’t take that on trust — the book runs it as a split test for two months and judges the winner on cost per started case, not per enquiry.

Answers: a free consultation nobody counts

DECISION THREE

Keep every patient

A care membership for patients without insurance, offered before they leave their first visit — sold only as fast as hygiene time allows. A clinic that keeps its patients compounds; one that doesn’t starts again every month.

Answers: nothing brings patients back

DECISION FOUR

Get paid in the first thirty days

A first payment that covers the lab bill before anything is ordered. Outside finance instead of instalments you carry yourself for a year. One relevant offer at each moment of need.

Answers: cash arrives long after the lab bill

DECISION FIVE

Run it from ninety minutes a week

Every role gets one page and a small set of daily numbers. Your part is ninety minutes on a Monday: fifteen on the dashboard, thirty on ten fixed questions, twenty-five approving adverts and templates, ten choosing the week’s test, ten on open decisions. Nothing depends on you being on camera or in the room.

Answers: everything waits for the owner

What’s inside

Six parts. Twenty-one chapters. Nothing theoretical.

Every calculation shows its method first, so it works in any currency, at any fee level, in any market.

Part One

The Situation

  1. Where Your Clinic Stands
  2. The Plan in Five Decisions

Part Two

The Money

  1. The Patient’s Journey as a Series of Offers
  2. Getting Paid
  3. The Numbers Behind the Model

Part Three

The Offers

  1. The See-It-First Smile Programme
  2. The Smile Assessment
  3. The Care Plan
  4. Beyond Aligners
  5. Lighter Options, Seasons and the Offer Log

Part Four

Finding Patients

  1. Paid Advertising That Pays
  2. Following Up on Messages
  3. Reviews, Referrals and Partners
  4. Search, Content and Outside Help

Part Five

Turning Enquiries into Patients

  1. From First Message to Booked Visit
  2. The Assessment, the Plan Review and the Decision
  3. Objections and Promises
  4. Every Visit After the Yes

Part Six

Running It

  1. The Team and Its Daily Numbers
  2. Your Ninety Minutes and the Dashboard
  3. The First Ninety Days

Look inside

Four real pages, exactly as they appear in the book.

Page 17: Figure 3, what a started case costs in advertising and what it earns at four start rates
p. 17 The cost of a started case
Page 22: Figure 5, the five decisions and the problem each one answers
p. 22 The plan in five decisions
Page 35: Figure 8, the payment ladder, stop at the first rung that fits
p. 35 The payment ladder
Page 131: Figure 31, the seven lines with targets on the owner's dashboard
p. 131 The Monday dashboard

All twenty-one chapters, every figure, and the ninety-day plan.

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Before you buy

This book is not for everyone.

Buy it if

  • You own or run an independent dental clinic and can actually change fees, scripts and roles
  • You already get enquiries — and suspect too few of them turn into started cases
  • You spend on advertising but couldn’t say what a started case costs you
  • Your hygiene diary is full while a third of your patients are overdue
  • You want a system your team runs, not another thing that waits for you
  • You’re willing to measure for a month before changing the budget

Don’t buy it if

  • You’re an associate with no authority over pricing or process
  • You want clinical or technique content — there is none here
  • You want a done-for-you agency. This is a playbook you install yourself
  • You want guaranteed revenue figures. The book states plainly that none of its numbers is a benchmark
  • You’re looking for tactics that skip local advertising regulation. Every chapter does the opposite

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One evening to read.
Ninety days to install.

You get the complete first edition as a PDF, delivered the moment you pay. Read it on a laptop, an iPad, or print the chapters your team needs — Chapter 19 is written as one page per role for exactly that reason.

It costs less than a single no-show. If it changes one thing about how you sell one elective case, it has paid for itself several hundred times over.

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Read the whole thing. If it doesn’t give you at least one number you weren’t measuring and one offer you can install next week, reply to your receipt and you get every cent back. You keep the book.

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  • Appendix B: every estimate and decision in one place
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The author

Dr. Zakarnah

Dr. Zakarnah has practised dentistry for twelve years and owns a busy private clinic in Dubai — and still treats patients. Everything in this book was worked out inside a running practice, with a real team, real lab bills and a real diary that fills up. None of it came from a seminar room.

The book exists because of a pattern that kept turning up, first in this clinic’s own numbers and then in the numbers of every owner they were compared with: a busy front door and too few rooms behind it. Patients arriving in good numbers. Almost nothing built to catch them, keep them, or collect the money before the lab invoice landed.

Practising in Dubai shaped the method as much as the arithmetic did. Every offer, promise and message in it had to survive a regulator first — which is why the book is built to be checked against local rules rather than copied, and why it travels to any market where the dentistry comes first and the advertising is governed.

Questions

Before you decide.

I’m not in the United States. Do the numbers still work?

Yes, because the book never asks you to copy its numbers. Every figure belongs to one illustrative worked example in US dollars, and the book says so on the copyright page. What you use is the method — and every calculation shows its method before its arithmetic, so it works in any currency, at any fee level.

Chapter 1 opens with a table you fill in with your own clinic’s figures before reading further. Appendix B lists every estimate and decision in one place so you can swap them out.

My clinic doesn’t do clear aligners.

Aligners are the worked example, not the subject. The model is: take your main elective treatment, stop selling it as a price, build it into a named programme, and put one relevant offer at each turn of the patient’s journey. Chapter 9 works the same structure through veneers and implants, and Chapter 5 shows the arithmetic you run to decide which treatment to build it around first.

Is any of this allowed where I practise?

That is the right question, and it’s why the book has an appendix devoted to it. Health advertising, promotions, prepaid plans, the word “free”, guarantees, refunds, testimonials, referral rewards and patient finance are all regulated, and the rules differ between countries and sometimes between cities.

Appendix A maps the six places your rules come from and gives you a route that anything patient-facing takes before it goes out. Wherever a rule is unclear, the worked example deliberately takes the cautious reading. Nothing here is legal, financial, regulatory or clinical advice — check every idea against your own rules and advisers before using it.

Will this tell me what to say to patients in the chair?

Partly — but with a hard boundary. Part Five covers the first message, the assessment, the plan review, the decision and the objections, with the actual sequence and the standard at each step. What it will never do is override clinical judgement: no offer is made before a diagnosis, no patient is pressured in the chair, and nothing said or written ever promises a clinical result.

How long does it take to see anything change?

The book is honest about this. Week one is counting — you cannot judge any decision without a baseline, and the start rate has to be measured for a full month before you touch the advertising. The membership goes live in week two, the programme in week three. Chapter 21 lays the first ninety days out week by week, ending in a written quarter review.

The advertising budget deliberately stays exactly where it is until the measured numbers clear three to one and the diary shows room to treat more.

What format is it, and how do I get it?

A PDF, delivered by email the moment payment clears — usually within a minute. It reads well on a laptop or tablet and prints cleanly, which matters because Chapter 19 is written as one page per role for you to hand out.

How do I pay, and is it secure?

By card, PayPal, Apple Pay or Google Pay. Payment is handled entirely by our checkout provider on their own encrypted page — your card details never touch this website and we never see them. You’ll get a proper receipt by email, with any sales tax for your country already worked out.

What if it isn’t useful to me?

Reply to your receipt within thirty days and you get a full refund, no questions asked. You keep the book. At this price the only thing either of us should care about is whether it’s worth your evening.

One last thing

A clinic that stalls hasn’t run out of market.

It has run out of system. Six questions in Chapter 1 tell you which one you’re looking at — and most owners get an uncomfortable answer.

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