Why do I need financial controls in my dental practice? Because in a busy practice money walks out the door more easily than you want to believe, and you usually find out far too late. The fix is a written set of financial controls, real checks and balances across every place cash and billing move through the office. Think of it like a hygiene recall system. You don't trust your memory to catch a missing six month patient, you build a system that catches it for you. Money is no different. When there's no control and funds quietly disappear, it isn't [...]