CDA Presents 2027: May 13-15, Anaheim
The California Dental Association brings CDA Presents back to the Anaheim Convention Center on May 13-15, 2027, a Thursday through Saturday. Registration, according to CDA, opens in January. Sorso is not an exhibitor, sponsor, or speaker at this event. This is an independent prep guide for dental practice owners.
Going to CDA Presents Anaheim 2027? Know your own numbers before the sessions start. The free assessment takes about four minutes; a call with Stan takes 30.
The CFO read
For a California practice paying metro wages and rent, overhead decides the margin, and fees rarely move fast enough to cover a new fixed cost. That makes the Anaheim exhibit hall a place to be careful: every new monthly payment lands on top of what you already carry. Bring your Q1 overhead percentage and a hard ceiling for anything you plan to buy. If a deal does not clear both, it can wait for next year's show.
— Stanislav Sukhinin, CFA · Founder, Sorso
What this event is
CDA Presents is the California Dental Association's convention, billed as The Art and Science of Dentistry. The 2027 edition returns to the Anaheim Convention Center.
The program pairs lectures and hands-on workshops with a large exhibit hall. For California owners it is the closest large meeting and the obvious place to do equipment and vendor shopping. CDA says registration opens in January 2027.
Why this matters for your bottom line
If your practice sits in a high-wage, high-rent California metro, overhead is the number that decides your margin. Any purchase made in Anaheim lands on that base.
Mid-May is late enough in the year to judge first-quarter results and early enough to change the second half. Owners who arrive with Q1 numbers can decide on the spot whether an equipment or software spend fits.
Medi-Cal Dental participation and the mix of commercial PPO plans set the payer picture for a California practice. A meeting run by the state association is a natural place to hear how peers are weighing those plans.
If a group or DSO approaches you at the show, the owner who already knows their adjusted EBITDA talks from a stronger position than one hearing a valuation for the first time.
What to look for
Sessions on Medi-Cal Dental and PPO participation decisions from practices that changed their mix
Hands-on courses that add a procedure you currently refer out, plus the volume you would need to justify it
Exhibitors offering financing: compare their rates to your bank line before signing anything
Practice-management and imaging software demos, with total cost of ownership over five years
California employment-law and wage compliance content for office managers
Transition, associateship and buy-in sessions if ownership is due to change in the next few years
Financial prep checklist
Review these before you go.
Close out Q1 2027 and bring collections, overhead percentage and production per provider
Rank your payers, Medi-Cal Dental included, by net collection per visit
Price the clinic days the trip closes using average daily collected production
Decide which equipment or software you are actually in the market for, and the most you will pay
Get a quote from your own bank for equipment financing so exhibitor offers have a comparison
Review staff wage rates against your local market before the HR and compliance sessions
Before CDA Presents Anaheim 2027, get your own numbers straight
Walk in able to check every benchmark on the slides against your own numbers. Three ways owners start with us:
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Forecasts, location-level P&L, and exit prep. Starts at $4,000/mo.
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A financial checkup before you go
Four minutes. See where your practice stands so every session is measured against your own numbers.
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Tell us, and we will look at coming to meet you.
Stan does not have a ticket booked for this one yet. If enough clinic owners want to sit down there, that is what decides it. Register interest and we will confirm either way well before the dates — no obligation, and we will not add you to a mailing list.
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Founder of Sorso and a CFA charterholder. Before Sorso, Stan spent 19 years in corporate finance at institutions including UniCredit and Société Générale — managing a $450M loan portfolio and making senior partner at a major mezzanine lender by 29 — then built a fractional CFO firm exclusively for outpatient healthcare clinics.