Featured Podcasts

Featured on Dentistry Uncensored

Episode #1709: The American Sleep and Breathing Academy, Part 1
Guests: Dr. Toshi Hart, Dr. Kimberly Ann Meyer, and Dr. Mark Levi
In a wide-ranging roundtable recorded at a global airway, breathing, and sleep conference, Howard sits down with three of the field’s most passionate voices: Dr. Toshi Hart, a diplomate and president-elect of the American Sleep and Breathing Academy; Dr. Kimberly Ann Meyer, current president of the American Academy of Craniofacial Pain; and Dr. Mark Levi, a Sydney-based diplomate who turned his own severe sleep apnea diagnosis into a career treating children. The conversation centers on a provocative idea—that the malocclusion, crowded teeth, and breathing problems flooding modern practices stem from generations of underdeveloped jaws, driven by softer diets, less nursing, and mouth breathing.

Each guest comes at it from a different angle. Hart shares how a single 45-minute lecture on craniofacial epigenetics redirected her career, leading to a study in which guided-growth appliances produced a 76% reduction in decay among her pediatric patients. Levi makes the case for early intervention in children as young as 3, explaining why the window to influence facial growth closes far earlier than most clinicians realize, with the face roughly 75% grown by age 4. Meyer connects the dots between nasal breathing, nitric oxide, tongue posture, and the tonsils and adenoids, and the cascade of downstream effects on sleep, behavior, and long-term health.

Along the way, the group takes on the fierce professional pushback they face, why mothers rather than journals are driving change, and the links between bruxism, airway, and even implant failure. They also make the case that a single-chair, drill-free practice can outperform a traditional one. The episode closes with practical guidance for young dentists—where to begin, why education matters more than expensive machinery, and how building thriving children builds a thriving practice. It’s a foundational first installment, with Part 2 still to come.


Episode #1705: The Case For Sedation
Guest: Dr. Jay Reznick
Dr. Jay Reznick, an oral and maxillofacial surgeon who holds both a DMD and an MD and is a longtime Dentaltown contributor, returns to make the case that sedation is one of the most underused practice builders in dentistry. Citing figures that up to 75% of patients report some level of dental fear, he argues that most dentists avoid offering it less for clinical reasons than out of a fear of stepping closer to medicine and uncertainty about how to implement it in the office. Reznick walks through how much safer the field has become—modern monitoring, better drugs, and careful titration—and lays out the practical path from oral sedation as a starting point to IV sedation as the next step. His bottom line: The single biggest cause of a bad outcome is simply no one watching the patient’s breathing, and a practice that can comfortably treat anxious patients reaches the roughly one in four who otherwise avoid the dentist entirely.


Episode #1708: Dentistry’s Future: AI
Guest: Ellen Bösl
Howard talks with Ellen Bösl, a chemical engineer and vice president of research and development at Solventum, who brings a systems-level lens to a stubborn question: why oral health remains one of the most unequal corners of health care even as materials, technology, and knowledge keep advancing. Her test for whether an innovation actually matters is simplicity—does it streamline the procedure, cut chair time, and improve outcomes, or just make a good press release? On AI, Bösl is measured, seeing it less as a threat than as a tool already at work in aligner planning and caries detection, and as a force that may eventually reshape how clinical evidence itself gets generated.


Episode #1710: Why Be a Dentist?
Guest: Dr. Benjamin Wachter
Howard reconnects with Dr. Ben Wachter, a Mesa, Arizona, general dentist whose path into the profession ran through three rounds of applications and a mentor, the late Dr. Tim Lukowski, who first brought him along on mission trips to Mexico. Much of the conversation is frank advice for new graduates: how to actually read a DSO contract, why the “owner doc” model can be more marketing than genuine ownership, and why a group should show you the real numbers, such as production per doctor and hygiene coverage, before you sign. Wachter is also candid about the staffing and hygienist shortages that make rural practice both rewarding and difficult, and about how mission work can reset a burned-out clinician.

Featured Townie Podcasts
Check out your fellow Townies’ podcasts!

Dental Unscripted with Michael Dinsio and Paula Quinn
How Smart Dental Practice Owners Use Local Marketing Data to Win New Patients Day One
Michael Dinsio and Paula Quinn talk with Guido Tebano of Market My Market about why so many dental startups approach marketing backward—building the practice and the website first, then waiting for the phone to ring. Tebano argues the real work happens before any ad runs: understanding the demand that already exists in a specific market and positioning to capture it. He makes the case that the metric most owners fixate on, provider-to-population ratio, matters less than hyperlocal search volume, since a “dentist near me” search often pulls from a radius as small as four miles rather than the whole metro. The conversation also digs into using local employer data to prioritize the right insurance networks at launch, the five questions a practice website must answer immediately (starting with whether it takes the patient’s insurance), and why even a flood of new-patient calls is wasted if the front desk isn’t converting them.


The Jameson Files with Carrie Webber
Episode 185: Dental Leadership and Challenges—A Deep Dive with Dr. Mark Reichley
Carrie Webber talks with Dr. Mark Reichley of Coastal Cosmetic and Implant Dentistry about the financial lessons that reshaped how he runs his practice. Reichley traces his path from a four-year stint in the Navy through private practice in South Carolina and Virginia Beach, including a rapid expansion during the pandemic and the setback of losing much of his team to unexpected retirements. The turning point came when he tried to sell: a beautiful facility and loyal patient base weren’t enough, because profitability and free cash flow, not appearances, determine a practice’s real value. His argument is that clinical excellence alone doesn’t make a practice healthy, and that owners who raise their financial IQ and ask for help earn more options down the road, whether they choose to grow, hold, or sell.