Terms of Service

Agreeing to this

Using https://ryansmithdds.com means you accept these terms. If you do not, the remedy is simple: stop using the site.

You need to be 18 or older and able to enter a contract.

What this site is

Ryan Smith writes here about the business side of running a dental practice — leadership, systems, overhead, acquisitions, and the numbers behind them.

Everything here is educational. It is not legal, accounting, tax, financial, investment or clinical advice, and reading it does not create a professional relationship of any kind between us.

Your practice, your market, your staff and your obligations are yours. Before you act on something you read here, run it past your own attorney, CPA or advisor, who knows your situation and is accountable to you for it.

Results

The figures on this site describe what happened in my own practices, or they are benchmarks the course teaches people to aim at. Neither is a promise about what will happen in yours. This matters enough to have its own page: https://ryansmithdds.com/earnings-disclaimer.

The free tools

The calculators under /tools run entirely in your browser and are there to help you think. They use simplified models, they do not know anything about your practice beyond what you type, and their output is an estimate, not an appraisal, a valuation, an audit or advice. Do not put one in front of a bank or a buyer as though it were.

Buying courses, coaching and programmes

Prices are as shown when you buy. Payment is taken by a third-party processor, and the course platform hosting the material has its own terms that apply alongside these.

A course licence is for you: one person, personal and non-transferable. Do not share your logins, and do not redistribute, resell or republish the material.

Coaching is a professional service, not a guarantee of an outcome. What you get out of it depends substantially on the work you do between sessions.

Refunds are covered at https://ryansmithdds.com/refund-policy.

Partnerships

Practice partnerships and acquisitions are negotiated individually and are governed by the separate written agreement signed for that deal, not by this page. Nothing on this site is an offer to sell a security or an invitation to invest.

The content, and what you may do with it

The articles, tools, images and design here are mine, and are protected by copyright.

You are welcome to quote from it, link to it, and cite it, with attribution and a link back.

This site is deliberately built to be read by machines. Crawling it, indexing it, and quoting it with attribution in an AI assistant's answer are all expressly permitted — that is what the llms.txt file, the content API and the MCP server are for.

What is not permitted is wholesale reproduction: republishing articles in full, repackaging the material as your own product or course, or scraping the archive to build a competing content library.

What you send me

Send me a message, a comment or an idea and you keep ownership of it, but you give me permission to use it to reply to you and to run the business. Do not send confidential patient information — this is not a HIPAA-covered channel, and a contact form is the wrong place for protected health information.

Links to other places

This site links out constantly — to tools, to other people's writing, to my own channels elsewhere. Those places are not under my control and I am not responsible for what they do or say.

Copyright complaints

If you think something here infringes your copyright, email support@ryansmithdds.com with the work in question, the URL, and enough detail to identify both. I will look at it properly and remove anything that should not be here.

No warranty

The site and everything on it is provided as-is and as-available. I do not warrant that it will be uninterrupted, error-free, or that the information is complete or current for your situation. To the fullest extent the law allows, implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement are disclaimed.

Limits on liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, I am not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost revenue or lost data, arising from your use of this site or anything you read on it.

Where liability cannot be excluded, it is capped at what you actually paid me in the twelve months before the claim, or one hundred dollars if you paid me nothing.

Some jurisdictions do not allow these limits, in which case they apply to you only as far as that jurisdiction permits.

Indemnity

If your use of the site, or your breach of these terms, causes a third-party claim against me, you agree to cover the reasonable cost of dealing with it.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the state in which Ryan Smith, DDS maintains its principal place of business, without regard to conflict-of-law rules.

If any part of these terms is found unenforceable, the rest of it stands.

Changes

These terms can change. The date at the top of the page changes with them, and continuing to use the site after that is how you accept the new version.

How to reach me

Questions about these terms, or about information you have shared, go to support@ryansmithdds.com. I read that address myself.