By: Ronda Holman If your state lets an assistant do it, doing it yourself isn't diligence — it's a scheduling leak you're choosing to keep. Watch a new dentist run a restorative day and you'll usually find the same quiet inefficiency: the doctor personally placing...
By: Dawn Patrick, Business Strategy Coach, IgniteDDS Missed part 1? Why You're the Bottleneck in Your Practice — How to Stop Being One You didn't invest years in dental school, take on the risk of ownership, build a team, and dedicate your life to helping...
Why your greatest competitive advantage isn't your technology, your location, or your clinical skill: it's the people you intentionally develop By: Dr. David Rice Missed part 2? Catch up here: Freedom Isn't Found in Working Less If you've owned a dental...
By: Dr. James Wanamaker If there's one principle that consistently comes up when I teach my restorative and cosmetic dentistry courses, it's this: predictability isn't an accident. It's the result of controlling as many variables as possible. As dentists, we're...
Part 3 of the Serving vs. Selling Series By: Candy Velez, CRDH, BSDH, IgniteDDS Dental Hygiene Coach Missed part 2? Catch up here. Overtreatment Isn't the Only Risk When conversations about selling in dentistry arise, the focus is often on overtreatment....
By: Dr. Sable Muntean Miss Case Acceptance Part 5? Catch up here! Here it is, plainly: the biggest mistake is avoiding the conversation. Most of us were trained to be excellent clinicians and received almost no training in financial communication. So we...
By: Dawn Patrick, Business Strategy Coach, IgniteDDS Have you ever found yourself answering the same question for the tenth time and thinking, "We've talked about this before. Why am I explaining it again?" Maybe you've spent hours training a team member only to have...
By: Dr. Sable Muntean Miss Case Acceptance Part 4? Catch up here! The clinical case for implants is usually straightforward. The psychological case — getting the patient to feel ready — is where most of us were never formally trained. Understanding a few...
Why the practice you've built feels like it owns you, and how systems create the freedom you were actually looking for By: Dr. David Rice Missed part 1? Catch up here: Why Great Dentists Build Average Practices If you're like me, when you decided to own a...