Know your own numbers first. Then read someone else's.
Most dentists never learn their own numbers. They find out whether they are any good the way a patient finds out about a cavity: late, and from someone else. Then they buy a practice on a broker's word. Bilanx is a set of instruments that fixes that, in order.
No benchmarks. There are none worth trusting, and I checked. Every number here is yours against your own baseline.
Measure yourself
Exams by type. What you found and presented. What was accepted. Production per opportunity. Four weeks of tallies on a card that fits in a pocket, and you have a baseline no consultant can sell you.
Read a practice
The seller's package is a sales document. Every window, definition, and filter in it runs the same direction. The book shows what to ask for, when you can still walk away, and how a lie shows up.
Run it by a written rule
An operations manual, chart-note templates, intake forms, claim narratives, and a coach that lets your team practice hard conversations out loud. All of it built for one office first, then made portable.
Bilanx
The Latin word for a two-pan scale, and the root of the word balance. Everything here is built on ratios, not totals. Your numbers against your own baseline. A practice's numbers against its own history.
I do not sell practices
I practice three days a week in Massachusetts and I built these tools for myself first. No broker pays for any of this, and no seller is my client. That is the reason it can say what it says. More about me.
What comes after the free tier
The scorecard becomes an app that computes the ratios for you. The free book becomes the full method with the workbook that runs it on a listing. The manual, the notes, and the forms arrive the day you take the keys. And a training coach lets your team rehearse the conversations that decide whether any of it works. See the tiers. They are not for sale yet; the list hears first.