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A failed measurement is not a finding. It is a missing one.
Short answer: When we scanned 527 US dental practice websites between 6 and 26 June 2026, not every check produced a usable reading for every site. Page speed could only be measured on 256 of them. One directory check returned a valid reading for 291 sites; another for just 146. We dropped each...  Read More
Who Leads While the Dentist Treats? (E.337)  Part 2
“You don’t need to have all the answers to ask all the questions.” – Joanne MilesEPISODE OVERVIEWA number drops and the story starts immediately.Patients are leaving. Case acceptance is down. The team is underperforming. Something needs to change.But the number may be telling a different story.In...  Read More
Dr. Peeyush Ranjan : Dentistry Uncensored w/ Howard Farran #1729
In this episode, Howard Farran sits down with Dr. Peeyush Ranjan, a board-certified pediatric dentist in both the United States and Canada and the owner of Tooth Pals in Airdrie, Alberta. Dr. Ranjan began his career in general dentistry in 2009 before discovering his passion for treating children,...  Read More
Episode 48: Dr. Paul Feuerstein on Dental Technology Journalism & the Future of Dental Media
Dental technology journalism has played a major role in shaping how clinicians discover, evaluate, and adopt innovation—and few people have contributed more to that conversation than Dr. Paul Feuerstein. In this episode of The Technology Evangelist Podcast, host Dr. John Flucke sits down with his...  Read More
How To Know If Your Office Suffers From “Artificial Harmony”
Artificial harmony is what happens when teams work alongside each other day in and day out, but never actually talk about what needs to be said.Kiera and Dana walk listeners through why getting to the root of problems in a practice is so critical — from not just a teamwork point of view, but for...  Read More
When Silence Blocks Dental Team Accountability
Dental team accountability does not come from louder reminders, longer meetings, or the doctor repeating the same expectation again. It starts when the team can say what needs to be said, work through the real issue, and commit to the same plan before leaving the room.Many dental practices have...  Read More
Build DSO Dental Practice Systems That Scale
DSO dental practice systems are not meant to make every location feel the same. They are meant to create enough consistency that a multi-location group can protect the brand, understand the numbers, support leaders, and deliver a reliable patient experience across every practice.That is where many...  Read More
Breaking Down the Benefits of DSOs
Re-releasing a Dental A-Team podcast fan favorite!Britt is fresh off visiting a ton of practices, many of which are part of dental support organizations (DSOs), and she’s sharing her insight. With Kiera, she talks about the foundational pieces to set up DSOs for success — everything from training...  Read More
Schema markup will not buy you a citation. It still has a job.
Short answer: Across 527 US dental practice websites in seven metros plus nine smaller nearby towns, scanned between 6 and 26 June 2026, 284 sites — 53.9% — carried no LocalBusiness or Dentist schema at all, and only 18 sites, 3.4%, had the complete configuration we measured. We did not test...  Read More
The Bryan Laskin Podcast Episode 198: The High Cost of Disconnected Systems
Let's face it, while dental practices are clinically more advanced than ever, the workflows surrounding treatment have historically struggled to keep up.In this episode of The Bryan Laskin Podcast, Dr. Bryan Laskin breaks down why dentistry has repeatedly confused isolated features with true...  Read More
Bigger on Paper, Breaking in Practice
Four operational blind spots every dental operator should understand before the next board meeting.Dentistry has spent the past decade consolidating.DSOs have gone from a relatively small corner of the industry to a major force in how care is delivered, how practices are financed, and how dental...  Read More
For the Practice Owners Stuck in the Weeds
Tiff and Nikki share how a hands-on operator can become a strategic owner, and at the same time set the team up for success. By sharing responsibilities and establishing clear systems, your practice’s culture, business, and team can blossom in unexpected ways.Episode resources:, and we'll catch you...  Read More
Episode 47: Dr. Bill Simon on Dental Practice Management & Organized Dentistry
Dental practice management is often taught in theory—but Dr. Bill Simon has lived it in every possible real-world scenario. In this episode of The Technology Evangelist Podcast, host Dr. John Flucke sits down with the Chicago-based dentist, organized dentistry leader, and long-time mentor to unpack...  Read More
The most-reviewed group blocked the fewest crawlers. That is not proof reviews caused it.
Short answer: We split 6,497 US local business domains into four bands by review count and read what each one's robots.txt declared about AI and data crawlers. In the lowest band, 13.0% of 1,648 domains blocked at least one of the 13 AI and data crawlers we checked. In the highest band, 8.7% of...  Read More
Joanne Tanner : Dentistry Uncensored w/ Howard Farran #1728
In this episode, Howard Farran sits down with JoAnne Tanner, founder of Tanner Management, a dental practice consulting firm specializing in acquisitions, financial due diligence, and operational systems. With more than 20 years of experience, JoAnne has guided countless dentists through the...  Read More
Win Back Time With Dental Practice Delegation
Dental practice delegation is not about pushing work away from the doctor. It is about moving the right work to the right people so the practice can run with more clarity, ownership, and consistency.Many practice owners are not buried because they lack a good team.They are buried because every...  Read More
Your robots.txt says yes. Your server can still say no. We tested 499 dental sites.
Short answer: We took 499 US dental practice websites whose robots.txt already permitted AI crawlers and whose homepages already loaded for an ordinary browser request, then asked each server for the same homepage under real AI crawler identities. On 22 July 2026, 72 of those 499 sites — 14.4% —...  Read More
We read the reviews on 523 dental practices. That still can't tell you whether reviews move ChatGPT's recommendations — and here's why we're not going to pretend otherwise.
Short answer: we don't know, and we're not going to fake a confident answer to sound more authoritative than the data lets us be. In our June 2026 scan of 523 U.S. dental practices, the median practice had 250 Google reviews at a 4.9-star average — and 96.7% already sit at or above 4.3 stars, the...  Read More
No agency can guarantee a ChatGPT citation. Here's what nearly every practice ChatGPT skipped was missing.
Short answer: no agency can guarantee that ChatGPT will name your practice, and I'm not going to pretend otherwise to make a better pitch. AI placement can't be bought — there is no paid slot in an AI-generated recommendation, ours included. What I can give you instead is what we actually measured:...  Read More
Why Roottine is the best Dental patient retention and recall software?
1 app. 9 features. Set it up once. Patients keep coming back without anyone at the practice doing anything after that.WHAT ROOTTINE ACTUALLY DOESHere's exactly what changes for your patientsEvery system below runs on its own clock or calendar date, not a staff member remembering to act, so once...  Read More
How Wellness Branding Helps Dentists Attract Better Patients | Dr. Kevin Faist | 620
One sentence from the latest podcast stuck with me:"People don't want to be convinced. They want to understand."Dr. Kevin Faist shared several ideas that apply far beyond dentistry.A few favorites:-"Cheap attention rarely becomes loyal attention."Not every new customer is the right customer.-...  Read More
We tracked 31 "AI visibility" agency names across 64 AI answers. Only one repeated on every run.
Short answer: there is no single, stable answer to "who are the top AI visibility companies for dentists." We asked ChatGPT and Perplexity the same 16 agency-hiring questions, twice each — 64 answers total, 7-8 August 2026 — and tracked 31 agency names across the responses. Only 20 of those 31...  Read More
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