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Every hygiene schedule has them: the new patient whose last cleaning was eight, ten, or fifteen years ago. These patients come from every background. Some lost  based on whether they expect to be judged. A new-patient process built around respect rather than a lecture is what turns that first visit...  Read More
Categories: Public Health
Every hygienist knows the patient who grips the armrests before the chair reclines. Dental anxiety is common, and for a meaningful share of adults it is severe enough to keep them away from the office for years. When those patients finally return, they often need more care than anyone else on the...  Read More
Categories: Public Health
Few healthcare providers see adults as regularly as the hygiene team. Most patients come in once or twice a year, sit with their mouth open for the better part of an hour, and answer health history questions every visit. That makes the hygienist one of the best-positioned clinicians to notice the...  Read More
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, where several providers may see the same patient over the years, a shared routine makes charting comparable from one visit to the next and from one hygienist to another.Staging and grading also guide the recall interval. A Stage I, Grade A patient and a Stage III, Grade C patient should not be on...  Read More
Categories: Periodontics
Patients who have invested in  for veneers, bonding, or crowns often carry several different restorative materials in one smile. In that setting, the material check at the start of the hygiene visit carries real weight, because the product and technique that suits one tooth may be the wrong choice...  Read More
Categories: Public Health
 provides aligner treatment in the same office as routine hygiene, the hygienist is well placed to spot decalcification or tracking problems early and bring them to the doctor before the next tray is dispensed.Don't Forget RetentionTreatment does not end when the last aligner comes off. Clear...  Read More
Categories: Hygiene
Implant volume keeps climbing in general practice. More general offices now place and restore implants under one roof, and every one of those cases eventually lands on a hygiene schedule. The surgery takes an afternoon. The maintenance lasts for decades, and the hygienist carries most of it.That...  Read More
Categories: Public Health
Why Dental Practice Owners Still Feel Stuck (E. 175)
“Stability can be a lot of workarounds stacked on top of each other to keep the peace.”- Victoria PetersonEpisode OverviewYou became a practice owner with something in mind. More control over your schedule. Time with your family. The freedom to practice dentistry your way.Somewhere between patient...  Read More
There Should Be No Surprises
“...Well, daddy, don’t you know that things go in cycles?  Way that Bobby Brown is just amping like Michael…” - ATCQAnyone paying attention should not be surprised by the current condition of the group dental sector (and many adjacent healthcare verticals).  For every allegedly “healthy” platform,...  Read More
Drs. Michael Silverman & Anthony Feck : Dentistry Uncensored w/ Howard Farran #1743
In this two-guest episode, Howard Farran sits down with the leadership team behind DOCS Education. Dr. Michael D. Silverman, a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine, is a globally recognized lecturer, author, and patient advocacy leader with more than four decades of...  Read More
Tobi Bosede, CEO of DentalFynd : Dentistry Uncensored w/ Howard Farran #1742
In this episode, Howard Farran sits down with Tobi Bosede, a recognized leader in artificial intelligence and machine learning — named one of Samasource’s “12 Women in Machine Learning to Watch” — who left a career building production AI systems for Fortune 500 companies to found DentalFynd, an...  Read More
What Dentists Need Before Buying a Practice (E.174)
“Cash is king, and that’s really going to help you get the best loans out there that are available.”- Johnette GreenEpisode OverviewYou found the right dental practice. The numbers look promising. You’re ready to become an owner.But are you financially prepared to make the purchase?Johnette Green...  Read More
How Much Dental Production Is Sitting in Your Unscheduled Treatment Report?
It's October. Your dental practice has three months left to reach its 2026 production goals, and the pressure is starting to build.Maybe the schedule has openings. Maybe patients are postponing treatment. Maybe your team is hearing the same objections about insurance, finances, and the holidays.The...  Read More
Jordon & Justin Comstock : Dentistry Uncensored w/ Howard Farran #1741
In this episode, Howard Farran sits down with brothers Jordon and Justin Comstock to dig into the economics of recurring revenue in dentistry. Jordon is the founder and CEO of BoomCloud, a dental membership-plan platform he bootstrapped into a multimillion-dollar SaaS company now serving hundreds...  Read More
Who’s More Important in a Dental Practice: Front Office or Clinical Team?
Running a successful dental practice takes more than providing excellent clinical care. It requires strong leadership, consistent systems, a well-trained team, and the ability to recognize opportunities that might otherwise go unnoticed.That's exactly why we created Dental Drill Bits.Each week,...  Read More
The DSO "Premium"
If you’ve been around dentistry long enough, you’ve probably heard the term DSO or group “premium” referenced.  The perceived “premium” stems from the fact that for certain practices, group dental buyers are often able to offer a Total Enterprise Value (TEV) in excess of what independent dentists...  Read More
What Dentists May Be Missing Chairside (E.173)
“A lot of things that we’re seeing in the chair, they’re there for a reason.” - Joy LantzEpisode OverviewDentistry is exceptionally good at fixing what it can see. But what happens when the same problem keeps coming back?Joy joins Victoria to explore how oral function, airway, sleep, growth, and...  Read More
Categories: Pediatric
Keep It Simple Stupid (KISS)
We are amid yet another group dental economy evolution. While the debt monkey remains the seemingly obvious issue, an equal and potentially greater challenge is the proliferation of wildly complex and overengineered platform structures.  The term DSO has expanded to include DMO, DPO, MSO, JVs,...  Read More
Dr. Ann Marie Gorczyca : Dentistry Uncensored w/ Howard Farran #1740
In this episode, Howard Farran welcomes back Dr. Ann Marie Gorczyca for her sixth appearance on the show. An orthodontist with more than 36 years of experience, she is a graduate of the Harvard School of Dental Medicine with a Master's in Public Health from Harvard's Department of Health Management...  Read More
Ask a nervous patient what they dread about a dental visit and the answer is rarely the treatment plan. It is the sound, the scraping, the feeling of being unable to speak or swallow while someone works in their mouth. Which means the appointment they fear most is usually the one they spend the...  Read More
Categories: Public Health
Every hygienist has seen the debond photo that nobody wants in the portfolio: brackets off, teeth straight, and a chalky white rectangle outlined on the buccal surface of every upper anterior. The alignment is perfect. The enamel is not.White spot lesions remain the most common iatrogenic...  Read More
Categories: Hygiene
UNLV Dental Practice Ownership Lecture & QnA : Dentistry Uncensored w/ Howard Farran #1739
UNLV Dental Practice Ownership Lecture & QnA : Dentistry Uncensored w/ Howard Farran #1739In this special episode, Howard Farran steps into the lecture hall rather than the studio, delivering a guest lecture to dental students at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas at the invitation of Dr. Karen...  Read More
Dr. Jill Tanzi : Dentistry Uncensored w/ Howard Farran #1738
In this episode, Howard Farran sits down with Dr. Jill A. Tanzi, current president of the Alliance of Independent Dentists and a partner in Shero Dental Advisors. A valedictorian from Oxford, Massachusetts, she earned her BA cum laude in Biology from the University of Rochester and her DDS with...  Read More
Demystifying Rollover Equity
Just as cash will always be king, “equity” will remain the least understood transactional currency.  Due to its very nature, it is also the least understood, most easily abused, and heavily pitched “sweetener” in many bids from group practices.While equity has always been part of the group practice...  Read More
SIX STEPS TO A MAGICAL PRACTICE
Alex Nottingham, Founder and CEO of All-Star Dental Academy and author of My Uncle the Magician, joins Eric Vickery to share six powerful lessons from his new book and how dentists can apply them to leadership, their teams, patient experience, and creating a more fulfilling practice. Listen Here:   Read More
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