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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Selling? Build Dental Practice Profitability
A dentist can spend 20 years building a practice and only a few months preparing to sell it. That last-minute approach can limit choices. Dental practice profitability is built long before a buyer asks for financial statements, and the same habits that protect future value can make ownership easier...  Read More
How to Make Your Practice a Viable Asset For Your Eventual Exit
Kiera is joined by Brannon Moncrief, principal and CEO ofTranscript:Kiera (00:00)Hello, Dental A Team listeners. This is Kiera. And today I have one of my favorite people in the industry on the podcast today. He and I have podcasted multiple times. I just think he's a wealth of knowledge. And today...  Read More
Chick-fil-A’s Secret Sauce in YOUR Practice
Re-releasing a favorite of Dental A-Team listeners!Kiera chats with Chick-fil-A owner and operator George Demetriades — and it’s all about applying the chain fast-food restaurant’s success into your dental practice. There’s a lot of gold packed into this episode, but some of the highlights...  Read More
Chick-fil-A Secrets to Dental Office Systems
A nervous patient does not walk into a dental practice thinking about protocols. They notice whether someone looks up, greets them warmly, and explains what happens next. Dental office systems determine whether that experience is dependable or depends on which employee happens to be at the front...  Read More
Dental Production Growth Needs Better Tracking
Dental production growth can look like a marketing problem at first glance. The doctor sees holes in the schedule, feels pressure around new patient flow, and starts wondering whether the practice needs more leads, a new website, or a bigger ad budget.Sometimes that is the answer.Many times, it is...  Read More
Here’s What’s Happening in the Dental Marketing Space
Kiera is joined by Ryan Gross, CEO of. I love that you grabbed the AI URLs. It's brilliant. and definitely go check it out. Guys, there's so many nuggets in here that you don't even need to go and change much up. I love that Ryan said that. Me, I love the repurpose, reuse, recycle, honestly,...  Read More
Dental Practice Growth Needs Better Networks
Dental practice growth is not always created by adding another ad campaign, hiring another provider, or launching another internal project. Sometimes growth starts with the people around the practice and the strength of the relationships supporting the owner.Dentistry is built on trust. Patients...  Read More
Strategic Partnerships Grow Your Practice. Here’s How to Form Them.
Kiera takes a spin on profit growth by talking about a tactic many people don’t consider: strategic partnerships. This means looking at the community around you, those in your field and outside of it, and learning to refer and support one another. Kiera’s tips will help even the most introverted...  Read More
Dental Practice Profitability Needs Better Order
Dental practice profitability becomes harder than it needs to be when a practice tries to fix everything at once. A new meeting gets added. A new scheduling rule appears. A new case acceptance script gets introduced. The team hears another system is coming, and the doctor still wonders why the...  Read More
This Is the Blueprint For Profitable Practices
Introducing the Dental A-Team YES Operating System — a framework created after looking at thousands of practices to help you have predictable growth, profitability, and freedom. Hear from Kiera about why this approach will change the way you do dentistry (and improve the way you live your life).The...  Read More
Dental Office Systems for Messy Days
Dental office systems prove their value when the schedule stops behaving. A full team, full schedule, and full morning huddle can look great on paper, but dentistry rarely stays that clean for the whole day.Someone calls out.A lab case is not back.A patient needs emergency care.The doctor runs...  Read More
Yes, You ARE Allowed to Align Your Life Goals With Practice Growth
Practice success doesn’t always equal personal life happiness. Kiera talks about the Yes Success Model, and how to align your business goals with your personal life goals, because they’re allowed to complement each other (and should, frankly). She asks probing questions that’ll get you thinking...  Read More
Dental Practice Profitability Needs a Plan
Dental practice profitability is easier to protect when the budget becomes a leadership tool, not a once a year spreadsheet. For dentists and practice owners, year end planning creates a clearer view of what the practice spent, what growth will require, and what production must happen to support...  Read More
Let’s Have a Real Conversation About End of Year Planning
It’s Kiera and Britt on the pod together, with listeners getting a live look into how the Dental A-Team is thinking about the year’s end — plus ideas as to what could be copied over to dental practices. There’s a large emphasis on cost estimates and budgeting, including knowing when to fine-tune...  Read More
Avoid the Artificial Yes: Why Accepted Treatment Still Falls Off the Schedule
Dentistry is most important when a patient is in the practice. As soon as they leave, there are a million other parts of their life competing for priority. Tiff and Dana discuss how to talk about dental care with your patients so it doesn’t get lost under the heap of everything else. Episode...  Read More
This Is What Your KPIs Are Trying to Tell You
Your key performance indicators do not have to be intimidating. In fact, with the correct frame of mind, they tell you exactly what’s going on in your practice! Kiera shares the smart way to utilize KPIs, including:Looking for patterns, not just numbersFinding the question in each KPIUnderstanding...  Read More
Dental KPI Consulting for Better Decisions
Dental KPI consulting helps practice owners turn numbers into leadership decisions instead of after-the-fact stress. KPIs should not feel like a report card that only says whether the month was good or bad. They should help the practice see what is changing, ask better questions, and act before a...  Read More
Have This Problem? There’s a System For That.
Establishing the right systems in your practice creates consistency, profitability, and freedom in ways that individual effort is never going to. Kiera talks about the difference between systems and the people using them, how to know if you need a new system, why the right system equals...  Read More
Dental Office Systems Stop Hero Mode
Dental office systems protect a practice from relying on one person’s memory, effort, or constant problem-solving. A strong team member is valuable, but even the best person needs a clear process, consistent training, and accountability that keeps the standard alive.Many dentists want more control...  Read More
Do This Monthly To Protect Practice Profit
Tiff and Kristy break down monthly financial controls that protect your practice’s profit. These include identifying lag and lead measures, getting your supplies in check, creating a budget around the team’s fun money, and more.Episode resources: and we are happy to help you get all of that in...  Read More
Dental Practice Profitability Needs Monthly Budgets
Dental practice profitability is not protected by a full schedule alone. A practice can be producing, collecting, and serving patients all day while profit quietly slips away through supplies, payroll changes, subscriptions, payment fees, team spending, and purchases that were never planned.That is...  Read More
Operational Efficiency in Dental Practice Needs Guardrails
Operational efficiency in dental practice is becoming more important as AI tools enter scheduling, intake forms, charting, imaging, claims, emails, reception, and patient communication. The promise is appealing: less repetitive work, faster documentation, cleaner information, and more time for the...  Read More
Let’s Talk Honestly About AI In Your Practice
Kiera is joined by Dr. Rania Saleh, founder of . And as always, thanks for listening. And we'll catch you next time on the Dental A Team Podcast.  Read More
Dental Reviews Need a Real System
A new patient usually decides faster than most practices realize. They search online, compare a few offices, scan star ratings, read recent comments, and decide whether a practice feels trustworthy enough to call.Dental reviews can shape that decision before the team ever answers the phone.A...  Read More
Dental Office Systems Must Include Perio
Dental office systems should make periodontal care clearer, more consistent, and easier for patients to understand. In many practices, perio is still treated like a hygiene-only issue, even though the patient experience moves through the doctor, assistant, scheduler, treatment coordinator, billing...  Read More
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