GNYDM 2027: November 26-30, New York
The Greater New York Dental Meeting runs November 26 to 30, 2027 in New York, with the exhibit floor open November 28 to 30. It opens the day after Thanksgiving, about a month before the tax year ends, which turns every device on the exhibit floor into a timing decision. Sorso is not an exhibitor, sponsor, or speaker at this event. This is an independent prep guide for dental practice owners and their teams.
Going to Greater New York Dental Meeting 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
An exhibit floor this size is built to turn a walk into a financed purchase, and the late-November calendar hands every rep a year-end tax argument. Both can work in your favor: a device you had already planned to buy may genuinely belong in service before December 31. The gap between a smart year-end move and a regret is preparation. Arrive with an income estimate from your accountant, a shortlist, and a capital cap, then spend against the plan you brought rather than the one the floor writes for you.
— Stanislav Sukhinin, CFA · Founder, Sorso
Why this matters for your bottom line
The meeting falls in the final week of November, so a device put into service by December 31 lands in this year's taxes. That makes the floor a planning tool for owners who already know their income position, and a trap for those who do not.
Three days of exhibits means a high volume of pitches and little time to think. A written shortlist is the one thing that keeps a walk from turning into a spend.
The meeting draws attendees from far beyond New York, and the exhibit floor is broad. That breadth earns its place in your schedule only if you arrive to compare specific categories rather than to browse.
Booth financing and show-only pricing are negotiating tactics, not favors. An owner who knows their borrowing cost and their planned capital budget can use the deadline pressure instead of being used by it.
What to look for
Capital equipment you already budgeted for, priced against both show-floor and off-floor quotes so you know the real discount
Section 179 and bonus-depreciation eligibility for anything you could place in service by December 31, confirmed with your accountant rather than the booth
Financing and lease offers compared line by line against your actual cost of borrowing
Specialty and international exhibitors carrying materials or devices your usual suppliers do not stock
Software and workflow vendors judged on measurable admin or chair-time saved, with a trial you can actually run
Financial prep checklist
Review these before you go.
Get a current-year taxable-income estimate from your accountant before you walk the floor, so any purchase is deliberate
Write the shortlist: the specific categories you will evaluate and a hard dollar cap for the trip
For every device under consideration, work out the annual production it must generate to earn its cost over its life
Audit utilization on gear you already own in the same category before adding more of it
Nail down your real cost of borrowing so a floor financing offer can be judged on sight
Decide in advance which purchases, if any, you want placed in service before December 31, and why
What it costs to send someone
Registration is the line everyone budgets first. It is rarely the one that decides whether the trip was worth it.
Registration
GNYDM had not posted 2027 registration details when we checked. Plan around travel instead: the meeting opens the day after Thanksgiving, so you are booking flights and a New York hotel for a holiday week, and lodging and headcount will set the cost more than admission.
Coverage and lost production
Every clinical day you spend in New York is a day the chairs at home sit empty unless an associate covers them. For an owner-dentist, that lost production usually dwarfs the travel bill, so price it first and let it decide how many days you go.
Who else travels
GNYDM is a team trip for many practices, with the owner, an associate, and key staff all attending for the CE. Each added person adds another holiday-week flight and hotel room, so decide who genuinely needs the floor versus who is going for the courses.
What comes back as a deduction
IRS Publication 463 allows the travel deduction for a convention where “your attendance benefits your trade or business,” on the ordinary rules for travel away from home. Meals are generally limited to 50% of the unreimbursed cost. Keep the agenda with the receipts, and confirm the treatment with whoever signs your return.
No rates are quoted here. The organizer had published none when we last checked this page against their site on 10 August 2026, and travel is yours to price for your own dates anyway. The point of the list is that the two lines owners leave out, coverage and headcount, are the ones that decide the real number.
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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.