Everyone is getting squeezed by higher costs these days, including dental practice owners. Here’s a brief look at how dental practice owners can address the surge in operating expenses and why partnering with a dental service organization (DSO) might be your best bet to offset higher costs. Insurers didn’t respond quickly to pandemic-related inflation by increasing reimbursement rates commensurate with higher operating costs. This explains why practice owners list higher operating costs as their chief concern. With a DSO partnership, dental practice owners can also avoid costly mistakes, such as what a $2.2 million per year California practice made when it lost one of its four hygienists upon reopening after the pandemic.