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Dental School Debt: How to Manage and Pay it Off

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For dentists who have student loan debt, learning how to best manage and ultimately pay off that debt, is one of the keys to being more profitable in your dental practice. According to the American Dental Association, the average debt per dental school graduate is now nearing $300,000.

In this episode of The Art of Dental Finance and Management podcast, Art meets with Mark Johnson, founder of Student Loans RX. Mark discusses ways to help dentists adopt the best strategy to pay off their student loans and make long-term financial plans. In the episode, Art and Mark also discuss:

  • New rules passed by Congress on student loan payments
  • What has changed with the COVID-19 pandemic
  • How income-based repayment plans work
  • Pros and cons of refinancing federally subsidized student loans with private lenders
  • How student loans work if a dentist chooses to work in the public health sector
  • Why student loan repayment is a critical part of overall financial planning

Reach out to Art if you have any questions regarding dental finance and management for your dental practice.

Serving dental professionals for 35 years, Art Wiederman, CPA, is director of dental practices for Eide Bailly, one of the nation’s leading CPA firms. With special expertise in dental practice metrics and benchmarks, he oversees a variety of services, including accounting, tax and financial planning, retirement planning, and financial practice management. In addition to his podcast, Wiederman lectures nationally on dental accounting and financial management. He can be reached at awiederman@eidebailly.com.


Mark Johnson is a thirty-year veteran of the investment and financial planning industry and a pioneer in helping emerging dental professionals with student loan repayment strategies and planning for other important financial issses like practice ownership, investment and insurance planning. Since founding StudentLoansRx in 2013, Mark has spent thousands of hours and has helped many of emerging dental professionals create plans to address their student loan debt within the context of an overall financial plan. Mark's three decades in the investment and financial planning industry and his in-depth knowledge of the various federal and private student loan repayment programs, allows him to create custom plans for his dental clients (including foreign nationals) based on their career path (associate, public health, practice ownership and residency) and other financial goals, including insurance and investment planning.


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