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The Dental Entrepreneur

About The Author

Dr Larkin is a native of Omaha Nebraska and is a graduate of the
Creighton University School of Dentistry.

In October of his senior year, Dr Larkin leased a space, designed
an office, and obtained a construction/equipment loan. On
subsequent weekends, he and his roommates remodeled the
space. Shortly before graduation he received an offer to join a
prominent practice in another state. He sold his newly built office
to a fellow classmate. When most senior students were
preoccupied with passing their national board exams, Dr Larkin
had already built and sold his first office. He has built several
practices in his 17 years of private practice and his practices have
consistently been in the top 5% of profitability percentages
nationwide.

In 1995 he began to teach part time at the
Creighton School of Dentistry. He authored a
practice management handbook for a lunch
and learn series that he gave, “Starting and

Building a Dental Practice in the 21st
Century. He received the outstanding
teacher award in his first year of teaching.
The first and only time a part time instructor
had received that award.

In 1997 he assisted in developing specialized financial and management services for dental
clientele of one of the leading healthcare accounting firms in the Midwest.

In 1998 He developed and eventually sold the first dental e-commerce web sites on the
Internet, Dentalauction.com. At the same time he completed the first web development and
ecommerce programs at the University of Nebraska. Since then he was taught and been
involved in practice management and Internet marketing consulting.

In 2009 he moved to Lexington Kentucky to become an assistant Professor at the University
of Kentucky College of Dentistry. He developed a practice management series entitle “The
Business of Dentistry, A Mini MBA