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Inside Tend’s Dentist Recruitment Success and 160% Surge in Applications
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- Group Dentistry Now
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Summary and scoring by The Bell Brief (Dr. Jennifer Bell) using the Drill-Down Protocol. Not the original publisher.
Why it matters for dental
DSO owners and recruiters can review how one group’s transparent compensation formula produced a 160% rise in dentist applications and an 86% offer-acceptance rate, providing a benchmark for competing in the current market.
Key points
- 01
Tend operates 33 studios across six markets and reported a 160% increase in dentist applications one year after it introduced its production-based compensation model.
- 02
Tend states that 86% of candidates who receive offers are accepting them, and the top 9% of its dentists now earn more than $400,000 annually.
- 03
Under the model, general dentists earn up to 40% of adjusted production with no cap, and the company publicly shares compensation formulas and studio performance metrics.
- 04
Tend credits clear-aligner revenue to the treating dentist at the bonding appointment rather than spreading production credit across the full treatment period.
Who should care
- Owner
- DSO
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