---
title: "What Is Dental practice management? Dental Practice Glossary"
description: "Dental practice management is the business side of running a dental office: directing the team, handling money, building the schedule, running systems and caring..."
url: https://joncopeland.multisites.ai/glossary/dental-practice-management
publisher: Copeland Consulting Services
email: drcopeland@joncopelanddds.com
contact: https://joncopeland.multisites.ai/contact
---

Practice management

# Dental practice management

Dental practice management is the business side of running a dental office: directing the team, handling money, building the schedule, running systems and caring for patients so clinical work can happen.

Dental practice management covers the work that surrounds clinical care. It includes directing the team, tracking [production](https://joncopeland.multisites.ai/glossary/production) and [collections](https://joncopeland.multisites.ai/glossary/collections), keeping the schedule full, running billing and recall, and answering patient questions. The ADA sorts its practice management resources by topic, including finances, risk management, patients and office design. It also states that keeping loyal patients and attracting new ones takes effort from the entire dental team. In a small office one owner and one office manager may cover most of these tasks. In a larger group the tasks are split across several roles. The titles differ, but the tasks are the same. A [dental practice consultant](https://joncopeland.multisites.ai/glossary/dental-practice-consultant) is one source of outside help with this work.

[Next stepPractice consulting with Dr. Copeland](https://joncopeland.multisites.ai/contact?topic=consulting)

## Related terms

-   [Dental practice consultant](https://joncopeland.multisites.ai/glossary/dental-practice-consultant)
-   [Practice systems](https://joncopeland.multisites.ai/glossary/practice-systems)
-   [Key performance indicator](https://joncopeland.multisites.ai/glossary/key-performance-indicator)
-   [Practice culture](https://joncopeland.multisites.ai/glossary/practice-culture)

## Sources

1.  [ADA, Practice management](https://www.ada.org/resources/practice/practice-management)

## Talk with Dr. Copeland

[Contact Dr. Copeland](https://joncopeland.multisites.ai/contact)[Email](mailto:drcopeland@joncopelanddds.com)