Prosperident's investigators and practice-protection specialists are frequent contributors to the dental profession's leading publications. Below is a selection of peer-reviewed and trade-press articles authored or co-authored by David Harris, Forensic CPA, CFE, MBA, CEO of Prosperident, along with members of the Prosperident team. Articles are listed most-recent first. Prosperident's written works have appeared in every major North American dental publication.
| Article | Publication | Authors | Year | Read |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Final Check — Safeguarding A/R from Errors, Inefficiencies, and Embezzlement The third installment of the A/R Hurdles series — addresses critical components of A/R management, credits, refund controls, and the time allocation required to catch manipulation before it costs thousands. | The Profitable Dentist | David Harris, Amber Weber-Gonzales, Alyssa Kimmins & Kathy Kirkby | May 2025 | Read → |
| Understanding a Serial Money Thief: Embezzlement's "Frequent Fliers" Why do embezzlers strike again after being caught? Drawing on real case experience, this article profiles repeat offenders and explains the warning signs dentists miss when hiring — and why background checks alone fall short. | The Profitable Dentist | David Harris | April 2025 | Read → |
| The Cost of Poor AR Management: How to Protect Your Practice's Revenue Part two of the A/R Hurdles series — explores common billing-management failures, how uncollected receivables create both financial loss and embezzlement opportunity, and proven strategies for protecting your practice's cash flow. | The Profitable Dentist | David Harris | March 2025 | Read → |
| What's Not in Your Wallet? Hidden AR Risks That Could Cost You Thousands Part one of the A/R Hurdles series — reveals how aging receivables become a hiding place for theft, the specific AR categories most vulnerable to manipulation, and the oversight structures that close those gaps. | The Profitable Dentist | David Harris & Amber Weber-Gonzales | February 2025 | Read → |
| Protect Your Practice: Practical Steps to Divide Duties and Reduce Embezzlement Risks Goes beyond vague advice to provide concrete, actionable guidance on segregating duties in a dental office — including which tasks must never be combined and how to restructure workflows without disrupting operations. | The Profitable Dentist | David Harris | January 2025 | Read → |
| Embezzlement in Dentistry: Discover the Simple Secret to Safeguarding Your Practice from Embezzlement Cuts through the complexity to reveal the single most effective principle for preventing embezzlement — and explains why most dental practices unknowingly violate it every day. | The Profitable Dentist | David Harris & Amber Weber-Gonzales | October 2024 | Read → |
| Practical Approaches for Embezzlement Protection A comprehensive, practitioner-focused guide to layering embezzlement controls — covering technology, procedural safeguards, and the critical role of the dentist's own oversight behaviors. | Dental Economics | David Harris & Scott Clifford | 2022 | Read → |
| Strategies for Navigating the Dental Industry Labor Shortage Examines how the post-pandemic staffing crisis changed the risk calculus for dental practices — and why a desperate hiring environment is also a prime breeding ground for embezzlement. | Dental Economics | David Harris | 2022 | Read → |
| Post-Pandemic Fraud in Dental Practices Analyzes the surge in dental embezzlement during and after COVID-19 — including how operational disruptions, government relief programs, and remote monitoring created new vulnerabilities and emboldened opportunistic theft. | Dentistry Today | Amber Weber-Gonzales, David Harris & Wendy Askins | 2021 | Read → |
| Busting Embezzlement: Part 2 — A False Sense of Security Among Dentists Part two of a two-part series — challenges the common belief that trust, good systems, or software alone protect a practice, and identifies the specific misconceptions that leave dentists exposed. | DentistryIQ | David Harris, Sandy Baird & Jean Patterson | 2020 | Read → |
| Breaking Up Is Hard to Do: Ending the Employment Relationship A practical guide for dental practice owners navigating employee termination — covering what to do before, during, and after a dismissal to protect the practice from retaliation, data theft, and post-departure fraud. | Oral Health Group | Amber Weber-Gonzales & David Harris | 2020 | Read → |
| The COVID Crisis: Use Downtime to Prevent Chaos Written during the pandemic shutdown, this article guides practices through using forced downtime productively — strengthening financial controls, reviewing access permissions, and building the oversight infrastructure that survives disruption. | Oral Health Group | David Harris & Amber Weber-Gonzales | 2020 | Read → |
| Busting Embezzlement: Part 1 — The Problem Opens a two-part series by defining the true scale of dental embezzlement in North America — including how investigators uncover theft that practice owners never suspected and why the first instinct of most dentists is wrong. | DentistryIQ | David Harris, Sandy Baird & Jean Patterson | 2019 | Read → |
| Embezzlement — What Every Brilliant Clinician Should Know A foundational primer on dental embezzlement — covering the psychology of theft, the typical profile of an embezzler, and the overlooked vulnerabilities that make even the most well-run practices targets. | Oral Health Group | David Harris & Wendy Askins | 2017 | Read → |