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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How to Successfully Onboard an Associate Dentist
Bringing a new associate dentist into your practice is a major milestone. Whether you're expanding your clinical services, improving hygiene check efficiency, or creating better work-life balance, a successful onboarding process is crucial to maintaining team harmony and patient trust. However, if...  Read More
Episode #963: How Dentists Can Help Optimize Claims
Tiff and Kristy explain how viewing claims as stories can improve how practices can streamline that process. They touch on doctor-led language to use from start to finish, how artificial intelligence can improve the process, safety protocols to implement, and more. Episode resources: ...  Read More
Episode #803: KPIs Are a Scoreboard for Your Practice
AT consultants Tiff and Denae discuss key performance indicators (KPIs). When utilized correctly, KPIs can help you understand if the individual pieces are moving in the right direction for the practice as a whole. They touch on finding the right metrics for positions, examples of what to track,...  Read More
Episode #768: Dental Consultant's Top Tips to Maximize Your Software
Tiff and Dana return with efficiency hacks for going paperless in your practice. They touch on softwares to utilize, how to set expectations from the beginning, where you can go paperless right now, and more. Episode resources:   Read More
Episode #757: Finally Make Ordering Supplies Easy. With Derek Flesher at Ordo.
Kiera is joined by Deren Flesher, co-founder of Modento, to talk about a brand new product: Ordo! Ordo is a procurement software to help practices manage and order supplies. It’s built by dentists and refined by team members, so you know you’re getting a tried-and-true product. Dr. Flesher talks...  Read More
Episode #721: Perfecting Perio Protocol
As offices are considering the remainder of 2023, Tiff and Brit are hearing a lot about perio protocol. In this episode, they touch on four important aspects when it comes to perfecting and initiating that protocol: the importance of perio protocol; who uses it; who makes it; and key standards to...  Read More
Episode #699: Are You Diagnosing?
If your practice isn’t meeting monthly goals, it might be a sneaky factor as to why: You’re not diagnosing enough! Tiff and Dana explain how to go about tracking diagnoses, what numbers to aim for, timeline, and more. Episode resources: Reach out to Tiff and Dana:     Read More
Episode #662: How to Perform a Perfect Handoff?
It’s a consultant takeover! Tiff and Britt discuss the pluses of using route slips in your practice. Using a protocol for route slips will ramp up your office communications and help secure the trust of your patients. Consider the two following questions when using route slips:                   ...  Read More
Episode : #643: Making CE Actually FUN!
Kiera and Tiff are tuning in once more from the Rocky Mountain Dental Convention, fresh off three Dental A-Team events. Together, they reflect on how beneficial a) creating entertaining, powerful CE presentations, b) being willing to participate during those classes, and c) debriefing with your...  Read More
Episode : #642: 3 Benefits to Calibrating Exams
Brit and Dana are talking about the benefits of calibrating exams in a practice with multiple doctors. Specifically, they share three benefits for getting doctors, hygienists, and the hand-offs between them on the same page: Everyone speaks with more confidence Time is more efficiently utilized...  Read More
Episode : #630: A.I. in the Dental Space with Mike Buckner At Pearl
This episode is all about artificial intelligence in the world of dentistry. Kiera is joined by Mike Buckner to talk about Pearl, a company utilizing AI to perfect dental diagnoses. They walk through how to use the system (follow DAT on Instagram to watch Reels!), how the software works, and how...  Read More
Episode : #629: Do This During Downtime
Dana and Tiff provide tips and tricks for what to do when time moves slowly and there’s not a lot going on in your practice. In this episode, they talk about why it’s important to have a downtime list of tasks that’ll help move the business forward and approaches each department can take when there...  Read More
Episode : #615: Complete Your Ops Manual in 90 Days!
Kiera and Tiff quickly run through why it’s so important to have your ops manual current and relevant, and how the Dental A-Team can help you get there.  Read More
Episode : #606: Dynamite Dental Assistants With Tiffanie Trader
This is an episode dedicated to the dental assistants out there. Kiera and Tiff have both worked and loved working as dental assistants, sucking spit and all. They tease out what July 2023 will entail, methods provided by the Dental A-Team to perfect the cog in the wheel (aka those dental...  Read More
Episode 588: Implement Those 12 Systems in our Practices 2024 Strategy- You will be Shocked.
This is week one of 12 systems you should baseline by the end of this year, to get your practice ready for 2024. Kiera and Spiffy Tiffy break down the difference between management and leadership by touching on how to …                  Be a leader and manage your team without being a...  Read More
Episode 585: Is Your Practice Really Systematized?
Tiff and Kiera are mapping out 2023 for you with Dental A-Team’s new 12 systems. This is a track system to put in place to allow your practice to maximize production. Each month, your practice will focus on perfecting a certain system. For example, in May, review your scheduling; in September,...  Read More
Episode 569: You Need to Establish Perio Protocol
This is an episode all about perio and why it’s so important to establish protocol for it in your practice. Dana joins Kiera to touch on the following:          Why establishing perio protocol will benefit your hygiene team               How to get calibration               How to implement more...  Read More
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