The Dental Hacks Podcast

Dr. Paul Etchison is a dentist, practice owner, podcaster, coach and writer! Etch has recently released his second book entitled "Dental Practice Heroes II, the sequel: How a 3 Day Work Week Can Give You the Life You Want." Paul joins Alan for this entertaining conversation about how he found himself burned out even when he was very successful. His transition to 3 days a week has changed his role more from dentist to business owner where he works ON his business more than IN his business. Is this for everyone? Maybe not, but we discuss how it could fit into the practice owner's life. Our discussion covers burnout, leadership, delegation and the idea that clinical dentistry isn't necessarily the end-all! Some links from the show: Dental Practice Heroes Podcast "Dental Practice Heroes," the book "Dental Practice Heroes II," the sequel Go get your ticket and your room for Voices of Dentistry 2023! Join the Very Dental Facebook group using the password "Timmerman," Hornbrook" or "McWethy." If you'd like to s

Kevin and Zach are joined again by Dr. John Olmsted. John is from High Point, North Carolina and teaches at UNC Chapel Hill in the endodontics department. John is here to tell the guys about the Procodile Q endodontic instruments from Komet.  Some links from the show: Procodile Q file Go get your ticket and your room for Voices of Dentistry 2023! If you want to interact with us, head over to the Very Clinical Facebook Group! Join the Very Dental Facebook group using the password "Timmerman," Hornbrook" or "McWethy." If you'd like to support the Very Dental Podcast Network then you should support our sponsors!  -- You can learn to love removable, do dentures digitally and learn the basics of 3d dental design all in a 2 day class!  Check it out at denturece.com! -- Our friends at CAD-Ray want you to know that there has never been a better time to get into intraoral scanning! They sell and support all kinds of digital dentistry products from scanners, to printers and even cloud based software! For instance, the

Dr. Russell Schafer joins Al to discuss denture patients and denture struggles. We refer to a couple classic papers that are worth a read: Difficult Denture Birds and More Difficult Denture BIrds! One of the struggles we talk about is how many procedures have a very specific endpoint (think extractions) while dentures often times go on forever.  Some links from the show: denturece.com Difficult Denture Birds More Difficult Denture BIrds Go get your ticket and your room for Voices of Dentistry 2023! Join the Very Dental Facebook group using the password "Timmerman," Hornbrook" or "McWethy." If you'd like to support the Very Dental Podcast Network then you should support our sponsors!  You can learn to love removable, do dentures digitally and learn the basics of 3d dental design all in a 2 day class!  Check it out at denturece.com! -- Our friends at CAD-Ray want you to know that there has never been a better time to get into intraoral scanning! They sell and support all kinds of digital dentistry products

Dr. Gregg Kinzer sat down for a conversation with Alan back in September at the incomparable Spear Summit! For those that aren't familiar with Gregg, he's the prosthodontist that joined Dr. Frank Spear (you may have heard of him) in practice awhile back. He also lectures in many programs at Spear Education in Scottsdale, AZ. He's essentially the backbone of many of the programs at Spear Education, so he doesn't get many chances to go take CE of his own. And that, my friends, is how speakers are chosen for Spear Summit! Some of the topics they discussed: Gregg vs. Jeff Rouse at Spear Summit How Gregg chooses speakers for Summit Live Seminars are BACK at Spear!  Virtual seminars vs. live seminars Picking your friendly face when you're on stage Summit is a challenge for a speaker...how to bring your A game. AV at meetings...it's a whole thing Gregg needs to come to the Vedder Society! Gregg on social media and how he and Jeff have evolved on social media and influence Why don't they teach literature review in

Kevin and Zach are joined by an endodontist by the name of Dr. John Olmsted. John is from High Point, North Carolina and teaches at UNC Chapel Hill in the endodontics department. Both John and Kevin have been using the EndoPilot from Komet and the discussion focuses on the why and how of the EndoPilot!    "Komet is a German company. This is like driving a Mercedes Benz." -Kevin, on the Komet EndoPilot Some links from the show: EndoPilot from Komet Go get your ticket and your room for Voices of Dentistry 2023! If you want to interact with us, head over to the Very Clinical Facebook Group! Join the Very Dental Facebook group using the password "Timmerman," Hornbrook" or "McWethy." If you'd like to support the Very Dental Podcast Network then you should support our sponsors!  -- Our friends at CAD-Ray want you to know that there has never been a better time to get into intraoral scanning! They sell and support all kinds of digital dentistry products from scanners, to printers and even cloud based software! For

Al talks about his struggles to be congruent with what he believes to be the best way to practice dentistry...through a microscope. Also how he's attempting to incorporate particle abrasion in different ways.  Some links from the show: Global Microsurgeon's Chair BQE Ergodynamic Velopex AquaCare Go get your ticket and your room for Voices of Dentistry 2023! Join the Very Dental Facebook group using the password "Timmerman," Hornbrook" or "McWethy." If you'd like to support the Very Dental Podcast Network then you should support our sponsors!  It's time to stop hating removable! Dr. Russell Schafer is teaming up with our friends at CAD-Ray to teach Dentures: Fit, Bite and Smile at the CAD-Ray Las Vegas campus! You'll learn analog and digital techniques to provide predictable and efficient complete denture care! Check it out at verydentalpodcast.com/lasvegas. -- Our friends at CAD-Ray want you to know that there has never been a better time to get into intraoral scanning! They sell and support all kinds of d

If you're in to digital dentistry, you need to be working with CAD-Ray. Alan joined Dr. Armen Mirzayan, Damien Bonner and Jon Acker of CAD-Ray at their booth at the Greater New York Dental Meeting to talk about the array of digital options that they offer. It would be an understatement to say that things have changed since we talked at GNYDM 2021! CAD-Ray has become your "one stop shop" for all things digital dentistry and we dig in to all of it in this entertaining conversation. CAD-Ray is the right place to buy Medit scanners because of the customer support! The fundamentals of scanning transcends the brand of scanner! Without the service and support, digital dentistry can run in to problems There is SO MUCH that digital can do...it's easier to figure out with a course Why bring on 3Shape? Same day dentistry outside of the CEREC workflow! How to make a 3D printer useful in the dental office! How did Clinux, CAD-Ray's browser based CAD software come about? We're not all that far from printed permanent crown

Kevin and Zach expand their discussion about verbal skills that they've developed for moving patients past potential objections.  Some links from the show: Isodam Go get your ticket and your room for Voices of Dentistry 2023! If you want to interact with us, head over to the Very Clinical Facebook Group! Join the Very Dental Facebook group using the password "Timmerman," Hornbrook" or "McWethy." If you'd like to support the Very Dental Podcast Network then you should support our sponsors!  -- Our friends at CAD-Ray want you to know that there has never been a better time to get into intraoral scanning! They sell and support all kinds of digital dentistry products from scanners, to printers and even cloud based software! For instance, the Medit i600 itraoral scanner is priced at just about $13,000! And if you didn’t know, CAD-Ray now distributes 3Shape scanners and the amazing Trios 4 wireless just had a $10,000 price cut! It comes in under $25,000. And all these options come with CAD-Ray’s unbeatable support

Al shares an easy and free "time traveling" tool to help give you some perspective on life events and how anxiety is usually making payments on a bill you might not even owe! Some links from the show: Come see me at the Enova Illumination booth at the Greater New York Dental Meeting!  Go get your ticket and your room for Voices of Dentistry 2023! Join the Very Dental Facebook group using the password "Timmerman," Hornbrook" or "McWethy." If you'd like to support the Very Dental Podcast Network then you should support our sponsors!  It's time to stop hating removable! Dr. Russell Schafer is teaming up with our friends at CAD-Ray to teach Dentures: Fit, Bite and Smile at the CAD-Ray Las Vegas campus! You'll learn analog and digital techniques to provide predictable and efficient complete denture care! Check it out at verydentalpodcast.com/lasvegas. -- Our friends at CAD-Ray want you to know that there has never been a better time to get into intraoral scanning! They sell and support all kinds of digital dentist

Alan is joined again by Dr. Addison Killeen! Addison has owned multiple practices, has bought existing practices and done startups. He has interesting expertise in marketing all kinds of different practice situations and we talk about a lot of them in today's episode! Even the guy who wrote the book on associateship sometimes has to look for an associate! Associates come in all shapes and sizes! An aside about Lincoln, NE (Nebraska Nice) Marketing encompasses everything (branding, patient care, texts/answering the phone, website, ads, etc. Marketing is very situational (Addison's test lab) The best dollars spent marketing (in Lincoln, NE)...t-shirts! Patients LOVE it when you give them something. External vs. Internal marketing Don't do your own website!  What types of practices need what types of marketing? Make sure your phone is being answered! Do you have a marketing calendar? Addison's favorite procedure Working on farmers Some links from the show: The Dental Marketing Manual: The Comprehensive Guide

Kevin and Zach talk about the soft skills involved with the Invisalign process! Whether it's how to sell it or how to talk about expectations, Kevin drops some knowledge! Some links from the show: Go get your ticket and your room for Voices of Dentistry 2023! If you want to interact with us, head over to the Very Clinical Facebook Group! Join the Very Dental Facebook group using the password "Timmerman," Hornbrook" or "McWethy." If you'd like to support the Very Dental Podcast Network then you should support our sponsors!  -- Our friends at CAD-Ray want you to know that there has never been a better time to get into intraoral scanning! They sell and support all kinds of digital dentistry products from scanners, to printers and even cloud based software! For instance, the Medit i600 itraoral scanner is priced at just about $13,000! And if you didn’t know, CAD-Ray now distributes 3Shape scanners and the amazing Trios 4 wireless just had a $10,000 price cut! It comes in under $25,000. And all these options come

Is dental disease a lack of knowledge? Or is it more a lack of discipline or application of this knowledge in a patient's day to day life? Can we approach patients differently to help them apply their understanding of disease prevention in the 363 days per year that they aren't seeing their dental team? Some links from the show: Come see me at the Enova Illumination booth at the Greater New York Dental Meeting!  Go get your ticket and your room for Voices of Dentistry 2023! Join the Very Dental Facebook group using the password "Timmerman," Hornbrook" or "McWethy." If you'd like to support the Very Dental Podcast Network then you should support our sponsors!  It's time to stop hating removable! Dr. Russell Schafer is teaming up with our friends at CAD-Ray to teach Dentures: Fit, Bite and Smile at the CAD-Ray Las Vegas campus! You'll learn analog and digital techniques to provide predictable and efficient complete denture care! Check it out at verydentalpodcast.com/lasvegas. -- Our friends at CAD-Ray want you

Dr. Jason Smithson sat down with Alan in September for an expansive conversation at the Spear Summit in Scottsdale, AZ! Their conversation ranged from the cuisine at Waffle House to post-COVID hiring! Some of the topics they covered were: Has Jason ever eaten at Waffle House? How does your skill set influence your treatment plan? Decathlon dentists and how the concept has changed Why can't dentists in the US work together or share patients effectively? Why do we all have to have our own offices? Does owning an office = entrepreneurship?  Staffing after COVID: has the work ethic changed? The new graduate situation post COVID Al's new idea for an Instagram account: "Polishing a Turd" Times the rubber dam is unnecessary or worse! Photos of cases: are they for the patient or the dentist? Crazy equestrian wives and daughters Some links from the show: Come see me at the Enova Illumination booth at the Greater New York Dental Meeting!  Go see Jason teach Excellence in Composite Restorations at Spear Education Go

In this throwback episode Zach and Kevin talked with the incomparable Dr. Ash Mark of of All Things Dentistry Youtube page fame! Ash showered! He’s in Canada! Ash has almost as many views on his Youtube channel as Kim Kardashian We talk Canadian rock bands. Ash makes some really long videos but lately they are on calcified canals Endo tips! Diagnosis PA and BW CBCT The 6mm rule Magnification! Munce burs We discuss table top root canals We discuss separated files We discuss Gentle Wave Some links from the show: Go get your ticket and your room for Voices of Dentistry 2023! If you want to interact with us, head over to the Very Clinical Facebook Group! Join the Very Dental Facebook group using the password "Timmerman," Hornbrook" or "McWethy." If you'd like to support the Very Dental Podcast Network then you should support our sponsors!  -- Our friends at CAD-Ray want you to know that there has never been a better time to get into intraoral scanning! They sell and support all kinds of digital dentistry produc

A little rant about how patients misunderstand dental benefits. Some links from the show: My OG blog post: "A Gift Card From a Control Freak" (forgive the website formatting...I'm working on it with Wonderist!) Go get your ticket and your room for Voices of Dentistry 2023! Join the Very Dental Facebook group using the password "Timmerman," Hornbrook" or "McWethy." If you'd like to support the Very Dental Podcast Network then you should support our sponsors!  It's time to stop hating removable! Dr. Russell Schafer is teaming up with our friends at CAD-Ray to teach Dentures: Fit, Bite and Smile at the CAD-Ray Las Vegas campus! You'll learn analog and digital techniques to provide predictable and efficient complete denture care! Check it out at verydentalpodcast.com/lasvegas. -- Our friends at CAD-Ray want you to know that there has never been a better time to get into intraoral scanning! They sell and support all kinds of digital dentistry products from scanners, to printers and even cloud based software! For

Dr. Taher Dhoon created The Colorado Surgical Institute to teach dentists to place dental implants, among other things. He's a practice owner and one of the Dental Success Institute's "black belt" coaches. It turns out, he's a pretty interesting guy to have a conversation with, too! Some of the topics we covered: How did the Colorado Surgical Institute come about? How does the Colorado Surgical Institute help a dentist assess their existing skill set and what kind of educational challenge they're looking for? Do all dentists need to be surgeons? Was Taher always a "surgery guy?"  Is "implant marketing" pointing people at implants that really just need comprehensive restoration of teeth? Communication skills are probably more important than surgical skills (although surgical skills are important) How have some of the state laws on "volunteer licenses" changed the way dentists will do continuing education moving forward? How important is "hands-on" for a new skill set like implants? Will we be able to get hand

Dr. Kevin Nail joins Kevin and Alan again for more hot Acteon Piezotome Cube talk!  What is the best cookie? Intralift Kit Bone Surgery Kit Sinus Lift Kit

Al discusses two of his favorite strategies for blowing off steam and living a more peaceful existence. For the record neither of them includes "building a life that you don't want to escape from." Some links from the show: Go get your ticket and your room for Voices of Dentistry 2023! Join the Very Dental Facebook group using the password "Timmerman," Hornbrook" or "McWethy." If you'd like to support the Very Dental Podcast Network then you should support our sponsors!  It's time to stop hating removable! Dr. Russell Schafer is teaming up with our friends at CAD-Ray to teach Dentures: Fit, Bite and Smile at the CAD-Ray Las Vegas campus! You'll learn analog and digital techniques to provide predictable and efficient complete denture care! Check it out at verydentalpodcast.com/lasvegas. -- Our friends at CAD-Ray want you to know that there has never been a better time to get into intraoral scanning! They sell and support all kinds of digital dentistry products from scanners, to printers and even cloud based so

Dr. Bob Winter joined Alan for a wide ranging conversation. Bob teaches the legendary "Restorative Design" workshop on campus at Spear Education. Some of the topics they talked about were: The relationships between the "big names" at Spear and the respect and cameraderie that they've developed. The vulnerability of taking hands on courses and the responsibility theat Bob feels about making attendees feel comfortable.  Restorative Design, aka: how to prep teeth Bob on scopes, magnification and light Jason Smithson and Bob Winter have become pretty good friends! Bob is a dog guy Some links from the show: Restorative Design and Anterior Restorative Dentistry Spear seminars are coming back in December! Go get your ticket and your room for Voices of Dentistry 2023! Join the Very Dental Facebook group using the password "Timmerman," Hornbrook" or "McWethy." If you'd like to support the Very Dental Podcast Network then you should support our sponsors! It's time to stop hating removable! Dr. Russell Schafer i

Kevin welcomes Dr. Kevin Nail and fellow podcast host Alan Mead to talk about using the Acteon Piezotome Cube! Do you like surgery? Would you like to extract teeth less invasively? You're going to want to hear about how the Kevins use the Cube! Thanks for listening and "keep your wheelie up!" Some links from the show: Piezotome Cube Kevin's "Acteon Cube in Action" Facebook group Go get your ticket and your room for Voices of Dentistry 2023! If you want to interact with us, head over to the Very Clinical Facebook Group! Join the Very Dental Facebook group using the password "Timmerman," Hornbrook" or "McWethy." If you'd like to support the Very Dental Podcast Network then you should support our sponsors!  -- Our friends at CAD-Ray want you to know that there has never been a better time to get into intraoral scanning! They sell and support all kinds of digital dentistry products from scanners, to printers and even cloud based software! For instance, the Medit i600 itraoral scanner is priced at just about $