You want to know what keeps me up at night? It is not your production. It is not insurance. It is not the competition or overhead or your team. It is watching dentists waste the one asset they can never get back… their time. I carry a quote in my wallet that I have had… Read more »
The Real Trick Is What You Keep Telling Yourself
Here we are at the final Monday before Halloween and I want to bring everything we’ve talked about this month together. We started with the atmosphere you create, because people feel your energy before they understand your systems. We talked about ghosts from the past, because yesterday’s rejection should never be allowed to make today’s… Read more »
The Scariest Thing Haunting Your Practice This Halloween (Let’s Banish It for Good!)
We are one week from Halloween. That got me thinking… what’s the scariest thing about running a dental practice right now? Is it the overhead? The team drama? The DSO down the street? Insurance checks that keep shrinking? All of those things are real. I get it. They’re out there haunting you every day like… Read more »
How Do You Transition a Dental Practice to Insurance Independence?
To transition a dental practice to insurance independence, you review every payer contract, drop plans in the order your numbers support, train your team, give patients clear notice, and set up billing so patients can still use their own benefits. Most practices do it in stages, not all at once. The order matters more than… Read more »
Take Off The Practice Masks
By the middle of October, masks are everywhere. Kids are deciding who they want to become for Halloween, stores are filled with costumes, and for one night people get to step into another identity just for fun. There’s nothing wrong with that kind of mask. The masks I want to talk about this Monday are… Read more »

