Dr. Elie Abboud

Dr. Elie Abboud Dentist. Owner of Spring Hope Family Dentistry in North Carolina — sharing the real side of dentistry and the journey of building something meaningful. 🦷

05/31/2026

How my patients see me 😅🦷🪄

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05/28/2026

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We asked Claude so you don’t have to.
05/24/2026

We asked Claude so you don’t have to.

05/22/2026

The numbers don’t lie, but they can be arranged to mislead you. 👀💰💸

A practice on paper looked like a dream. Clean P&L, solid revenue. But after running the real math? I would’ve been walking into -$90,000/year and the seller wanted $400,000 for it.

Before you sign ANYTHING, do your own math. Read every line. Question every number. The fine print is where the truth hides.

Don’t buy someone else’s problem. 🦷💰

05/21/2026

Dentist: “I’m the boss.”
Office Manager: “That’s cute.” 🥰 😒

05/13/2026

At 29 years old I bought a million dollar practice. I had $380,000 in student debt. And I had people in my ear telling me I was out of my mind.

Here’s what nobody in this industry will admit 👇🏼

1. Dental school is the biggest financial trap in healthcare and most of you walked right into it.
Nobody forced you to sign the loan papers but nobody told you the truth either. You were sold a dream and handed a $380,000 bill for it. And the worst part? Most dentists spend their entire career working to pay back a system that never had their best interest in mind. The degree is real. The skills are real. But the financial model you were sold is broken and pretending otherwise is costing you your future.

2. If you are still in network with insurance companies you are not running a dental practice. You are running a charity for a corporation.
Insurance does not care about your patients. It does not care about your craft. It exists to minimize payouts while you work twice as hard for half the money. You are letting a middleman who has never touched a patient dictate how you practice dentistry. The dentists who defend insurance are the ones too afraid to bet on themselves and the insurance companies are counting on that fear.

3. Buying a million dollar practice in debt is smarter than being an associate and most dentists are too risk averse to admit it.
Everyone told me to wait. Pay off the debt first. Be responsible. And if I had listened I would still be building someone else’s dream while mine sat on hold. Associateships are sold as a stepping stone but for most dentists they become a permanent address. Ownership is scary. Debt is scary. But slowly handing your best years to someone else while calling it safe is the scariest thing of all.

If any of that ^^ makes you uncomfortable you’re probably exactly who needs to hear it.

Follow along. 🦷

05/12/2026

Unpopular opinions from a dentist who stopped playing it safe.

At 29 years old I bought a million dollar practice. I had $380,000 in student debt. And I had people in my ear telling me I was out of my mind.
Here’s what most of you don’t know:

1. Dental school is the biggest financial trap in healthcare and most of you walked right into it.
Nobody forced you to sign the loan papers but nobody told you the truth either. You were sold a dream and handed a $380,000 bill for it. And the worst part? Most dentists spend their entire career working to pay back a system that never had their best interest in mind. The degree is real. The skills are real. But the financial model you were sold is broken and pretending otherwise is costing you your future.

2. If you are still in network with insurance companies you are not running a dental practice. You are running a charity for a corporation.
Insurance does not care about your patients. It does not care about your craft. It exists to minimize payouts while you work twice as hard for half the money. You are letting a middleman who has never touched a patient dictate how you practice dentistry. The dentists who defend insurance are the ones too afraid to bet on themselves and the insurance companies are counting on that fear.

3. Buying a million dollar practice in debt is smarter than being an associate and most dentists are too risk averse to admit it.
Everyone told me to wait. Pay off the debt first. Be responsible. And if I had listened I would still be building someone else’s dream while mine sat on hold. Associateships are sold as a stepping stone but for most dentists they become a permanent address. Ownership is scary. Debt is scary. But slowly handing your best years to someone else while calling it safe is the scariest thing of all.

If any of that^^ makes you uncomfortable you’re probably exactly who needs to hear it.

Follow along. 🦷

05/11/2026

Can’t go to McDonald’s expecting Michelin star food 🙂‍↔️🫢

Address

615 E Nash Street
Spring Hope, NC
27882

Opening Hours

Monday 7:30am - 3:30pm
Tuesday 7:30am - 3:30pm
Wednesday 7:30am - 3:30pm
Thursday 7:30am - 3:30pm

Telephone

+12525186440

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