Dental A Team with Kiera Dent
Dental A Team with Kiera Dent
Dentists, this is your playbook for building a practice that THRIVES rather than just survives! If you're ready to scale, streamline, or simply want to lead like a CEO, we're here to support you with our strategies.
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What Smart Buyers Check Before Purchasing a Practice
Buying a dental practice should feel exciting, not confusing or chaotic. The smartest buyers slow down, study the real picture, and make sure the practice aligns with their long-term plans. Too many dentists fall in love with the idea of ownership, sign the deal quickly, and discover later that the...  Read More
Understanding the Dental Practice Life Cycle
The dental practice life cycle is one of the most useful ways to understand why a business feels chaotic, stuck, or ready for growth. When owners can identify where they sit in the dental practice life cycle, it becomes easier to see what needs to change and how to move toward a practice that feels...  Read More
Are You Looking Ahead For Your Practice?
Tiff and Trish discuss the often ignored practice transition — are you looking ahead for your practice? Ten years out? Thirty years? The two consultants discuss what to keep in line now so that any changes on the horizon are received with minimal panic and damage. Episode resources: ...  Read More
Build Value Early with Dental Practice Transition Strategies
Dental practice transition strategies are often viewed as something to think about only when a doctor is preparing to sell. In reality, the practices that transition smoothly are the ones that planned for it long before the decision was made. A strong transition is not a quick fix. It is the...  Read More
One Practice, One Year: Roadmap to Flourishing
Trish shares with Tiff and listeners her experience with a practice that started with a whole lot of uncertainty under a new doctor, and the steps undertaken that lead to a thriving workplace within a year. Specifically, she touches on how trust, flexibility, and numbers each played a role in...  Read More
FREE End of Year Preparation Checklist for Dentists
The last quarter of the year can make or break your practice. For many dentists, Q4 brings stress, surprise expenses, and a scramble to tie up loose ends. But with the right preparation, you can close out the year celebrating wins instead of worrying about what slipped through the cracks. That’s...  Read More
Let Them: The Leadership Strategy That Helped Our Clients Grow
Most dentists didn’t get into this field to manage people. Yet here you are, juggling patients, payroll, treatment planning, and team dynamics… while also trying to grow. Burnout creeps in, especially when it feels like you have to control everything to keep things from falling apart. What if the...  Read More
Are You Becoming The CEO Dentist
If you’re a dentist who owns your practice, you already hold the title of “CEO.” But wearing the title and living the role are two very different things. The real CEO dentists aren’t stuck in the day-to-day. They lead with vision. They empower their teams. They scale without sacrificing their time,...  Read More
Is Your Practice Healthy?
Re-releasing a DAT listener favorite! Kiera is all about key performance indicators in this episode, and why they’re important. When framing KPIs as the vitals of your practice, it makes a lot more sense! Some of Kiera’s favorite KPIs are … - Production (net, not gross) - Collection (at least...  Read More
The Scorecard That Keeps Your Practice Healthy
Let’s face it: you didn’t become a dentist to crunch numbers all day. But if you want a thriving, sustainable practice, tracking the right KPIs is non-negotiable. KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) are more than just stats. They’re the pulse of your business. And if you don’t measure what matters,...  Read More
The Right DNA For Success
Kiera shares some motivation everyone could use a bit of right now, especially if you’re facing significant challenges. Her episode reading recommendation: Miracle Morning by Hal Elrod. Episode resources: Transcript: Kiera Dent (00:01) Hello, Dental A Team listeners, this is Kiera. And...  Read More
The Secret Sauce to Hiring
Kiera and Kristy talk listeners through the patience of the hiring process, with specific attention to understanding training capacity, establishing onboarding expectations, utilizing available resources — and what to do when you do all this already, and it still doesn’t seem to work. Episode...  Read More
Create Momentum in Your Life with a Simple Morning Routine
In the fast-paced world of dentistry, it’s easy to pour into patients, team members, and your practice while leaving little left for yourself. But what if the secret to becoming a more fulfilled, focused, and effective dental professional starts before you even walk into the office? As a dental...  Read More
Smart Hiring Strategies in Today’s Dental Market
Hiring in dentistry has become one of the most difficult challenges practices face today. Whether it’s finding hygienists, assistants, or strong front office team members, many practices are feeling the squeeze of a competitive and limited market. The good news: with the right mindset and approach,...  Read More
Office Autopsy: How to Know If You’re Producing Enough
Kiera and Kristy break down a few reasons why your practice might not seem (or might not be, period) to have any money. They touch on how to find your profit point, knowing your debt, staying on top of collections and AR, and more. Episode resources: Transcript: The Dental A Team (00:00)...  Read More
How to Pay Your Hygiene Team: Compensation Models That Work
Hygiene compensation remains one of the most debated and sensitive topics in dental practices. Get it wrong, and you risk burnout, poor morale, and turnover. Get it right, and your hygiene team becomes one of the most profitable and productive parts of your practice. So what’s the right hygiene pay...  Read More
Why Your Practice Feels Broke at $2M
It’s a common and frustrating reality: collections are high, the schedule looks packed, yet there’s barely enough left over for the owner at the end of the month. If you’ve ever looked at your practice numbers and asked, “Where is all the money going?”, you’re not alone. We’ve walked hundreds of...  Read More
Raises + How to Give Them Correctly
Kiera walks listeners through the science of giving raises without breaking the bank or falling into the feel-good trap. She gives three steps to implement around the topic of raises:          Know your numbers               Raises are earned; they’re not automatic               Communicate with...  Read More
Branding Your Practice with Intention and Impact
Kiera is joined by Dr. Zaneta Hamlin, owner and founder of Cusp Dental Boutique. Dr. Zaneta, who built her practice from the ground up, shares with Kiera her journey, reflecting on what got her to this point and what she would’ve changed and focused more on if she were to start over again. Plus,...  Read More
The Only Checklist You Need For 2026
2026 might still seem like a ways off, but now is the time to start chipping away at preparation. Tiff and Kristy walk practices through what to do to be ready for a fresh start come January 1. They talk about lag and lead measures, what to put on your calendar now, fee schedules, and a ton more....  Read More
How to Give Team Raises Without Crushing Your Cash Flow
Giving raises doesn’t have to wreck your budget or your peace of mind. But too many practice owners make raise decisions based on emotion, guilt, or desperation rather than strategy. Done well, raises can boost retention, morale, and culture. Done wrong, they can destroy profitability and create...  Read More
Branding That Builds Loyalty
In a saturated dental market, most practices blend into the background. But not this one. When Dr. Zaneta Hamlin launched her scratch-start practice, she set out to build more than a dental office, she built a full brand experience that patients talk about, share, and stay loyal to. Here’s how she...  Read More
Avoid These Delegation Pitfalls
Re-releasing a DAT listener favorite! The Dental A Team is seeing a lot of burnout across practices we visit, so Kiera’s here to offer tips about delegating. Just because you can do a bunch of tasks doesn’t mean you should. Kiera provides DAT insight on the best/easiest way to delegate, how to...  Read More
Delegation: The Overlooked Strategy for Scaling Dental Practices
One of the most underutilized yet powerful growth strategies in dental practices is effective delegation. When done right, it boosts team efficiency, reduces burnout, and creates room for both leadership and operational excellence. But too often, delegation is avoided due to fear of losing control,...  Read More
Successfully implement new procedures without overwhelm
Thinking about adding new services to your dental practice like sleep apnea treatment, Botox, or same-day crowns, but unsure how to make it work without creating chaos? You’re not alone. Many dentists want to elevate their practices with high-demand services but hit roadblocks when it comes to...  Read More
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