Dental Practice Heroes

Two Paths To A Dental Practice That Runs Without You

If you have been grinding to “improve the practice” but your days still feel the same, you are not alone and you are not lazy. We dig into a hard truth: you can spend an entire year fixing what is bro...

2026-10-07

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When Your Strengths Create Dependence

Being the most capable person in your dental practice can feel like a superpower, right up until it becomes the reason everything still depends on you. I’m Dr. Paul Etchison, and I see this pattern co...

2026-10-05

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Why You Still Haven’t Cut Back a Clinical Day

You can have a solid team, good new patient flow, and real culture momentum and still feel weirdly stuck. That’s the trap we dig into today: the belief that you should wait until you feel 100% ready b...

2026-09-30

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The Dangerous Part About Having a Good Practice

Your practice is finally in a good place. The schedule is full, the money is good, and you actually like your team. This episode is about what happens when this comfort turns into complacency. The DP...

2026-09-28

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Your Team Isn’t Resisting the Change. They’re Resisting This

That uncomfortable moment when you roll out a new system and your team goes quiet isn’t about the system at all. It’s about what they think it means. We’re talking about one of the most common break...

2026-09-24

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You Might Be Wrong About Your Worst Team Member

"They're lazy." "They don't care." "This person is the problem." You probably said something like this the last time you got annoyed at the office. In this epi...

2026-09-22

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Retiring Early in Dentistry and the Freedom Trap

You can do everything “right” and still feel stuck: work harder, save more, invest earlier, chase a retirement number… then wake up the next day and realize nothing changed. That moment is what we’re ...

2026-09-16

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Why Your Team Only Follows Systems When You’re Watching (How to Fix It) w/ Dr. Gina Dorfman

Your team does the right things when you're in the building. Turn your back and... maybe not. Dr. Gina Dorfman has spent over 20 years building practices around culture, and knows exactly what m...

2026-09-14

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Your Practice Will Never Give You Freedom Until Your Leaders Can Do This

If your leadership meeting turns up “no problems,” we think you should be nervous. Silence can feel like health, but it often signals something else: people are checked out, nobody is looking closely,...

2026-09-09

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You're Spending Time On the Wrong Thing...Focus on This Instead w/ Dr. George Hariri

Whatever is holding your practice back is probably not the thing you worked on this week. Dr. George Hariri, co-founder of Shared Practices and author of Dental Moneyball, went from one practice to n...

2026-09-08

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Stop Talking Your Patients Out of the Best Treatment

That split second after a patient asks “Can’t you just fill it?” can quietly decide the whole case. If you hesitate, even with good intentions, you can accidentally turn your best clinical recommendat...

2026-09-02

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Simple Ways to Turn Patient Objections Into a Yes

Cost, timing, pain, insurance. These objections don't mean a patient is saying "no." In this episode, the DPH coaches share how they handle the most common patient objections and turn ...

2026-08-31

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The Subtle Trap Undermining Your Practice's Success

Your front desk can look busy all day and still leak production, profit, and patience. When phones, check-ins, insurance questions, and balance collections are treated like one giant job, “urgency” wi...

2026-08-27

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Implementation Usually Fails in 1 of These 3 Areas

We break down why the same operational problems keep resurfacing even after everyone “agrees” in a meeting. We share a simple leadership framework that turns talk into implementation so our dental pra...

2026-08-25

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How to Train the Assistant Every Other Dentist Wants w/ Kevin Henry

Every dentist wants an assistant who anticipates their needs without being asked. Almost nobody does what it takes to get there. Kevin Henry, dental journalist and founder of Dental Assistant Nation,...

2026-08-20

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Your Future Practice Won't Materialize Without Protecting This

We describe the moment every practice owner knows: you block CEO time to build better systems, then lose it to nonstop interruptions and tiny fires. We share how protecting leadership time, setting cl...

2026-08-18

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The Hidden Reason Your Practice Feels So Hard to Run w/ David Maloley

Eight out of ten employees show up disengaged. The other two are doing all the work in your practice. In this episode, Dr. David Maloley explains what's really driving attrition and why a payche...

2026-08-12

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Don't Try to Scale Your Practice Until You See This In Your Numbers

Hire another associate, open a second location, drop insurance — or maybe change nothing at all? The truth is, just because your practice can grow doesn't mean it should. In this episode, the DP...

2026-08-10

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3 Conversations that Will Keep You from Repeating Yourself

You know the moment: you’re having the same conversation again, trying to stay calm, trying to protect psychological safety, but quietly wondering why the message still isn’t landing. When a team memb...

2026-08-06

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5 Levers That Decide How Much Your Practice Produces

"I just need to get more patients into the office." It's something almost every owner tells themselves, but it's rarely what their practice needs. In this episode, you'll lea...

2026-08-03

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