Growing Pains
Fast-forward 12 years to 2008 and Dr. Wemmer’s practice had grown to the point where she needed an associate. Jon Feinauer, DDS, a 2008 graduate from the University of Michigan School of Dentistry, was practicing part-time at a nearby office and looking to establish a long-term business relationship. After a few face-to-face meetings with Dr. Wemmer, they decided to work together. Things went so well that Dr. Feinauer bought into the practice.
Not much time passed between when Dr. Feinauer started and when Dr. Wemmer started planning for a practice expansion. “We were too busy and tripping over one another,” she says. “The only place to go, because we occupied all of the first floor, was upstairs. And adding one operatory at a time was not an option.… We had to renovate the entire second floor [and remove the tenants] or do nothing.”
At the Chicago Mid-Winter Meeting in 2008, the doctors met with equipment specialist Jacob Liesemeyer and researched equipment and talked about the second-floor expansion. While she was almost 100-percent certain about the remodel, Liesemeyer proposed that Dr. Wemmer attend the Scottsdale Center for Dentistry’s Practice Harmony course to help her ask and answer the critical questions regarding financials and remodeling.
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Dr. Wemmer and her partner, architect Diane Nagelkirk, went to the seminar and returned convinced that it was the right thing to do. “The speaker talked about the numbers and about how it’s a big decision to expand a practice,” Dr. Wemmer says. “He gave rationale for why, how and when, and does it make sense to expand.”
Liesemeyer recommended that Dr. Wemmer take one more trip before they began: to A-dec’s headquarters in Oregon. He took her on a tour of the facility and then to the A-dec Education Center, or showroom, for hands-on time exploring all of the equipment options.
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