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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Episode : #633: How to Have the Hard Conversations
Tiff and Dana are back for another consultant takeover. In this episode, they talk about having hard conversations — the right way. They review step-by-step tips of how to prepare and how to navigate in the moment.  Read More
Episode : #632: Top Billing Mistakes and How To Avoid Them With Josh Smith
Even if you’re savvy with billing, listen to this episode. Josh Smith of Dental Claim Support is back to talk all about the main billing stumbling blocks his company is seeing with dental practices. If you adopt the tips he mentions in this episode, your practice will increase income in an...  Read More
Episode : #631: Control Your Budget and Supply Flow Like a Pro
Tiffanie at the Dental A Team is giving advice gathered and perfected from hundreds of dental offices on how to track and control your budget and supply flow. The tips she shares in this episode will help your office implement a tracking system that is key to making supply acquisition more...  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 : #628: Need-to-Know OSHA + HIPAA in 15 Minutes
DAT consultants Tiff and Tina touch on the importance of OSHA standards and HIPAA compliance in your office, including the following: Understanding the difference Resources and training tips Selecting a compliance officer  Read More
Episode : #627: MUST Have for Growing Offices With Host- Tiffanie Trader, Dental Consultant
Tiff takes the mic solo in this episode to talk about why online paperwork is a must-do for your practice. She reviews the benefits of automation, an option for outsourcing, what questions to ask yourself to begin the transition, and more.  Read More
Episode : #624: Are You Tracking This?
It’s a consultant takeover! Tiff and Tina put their heads together to share what they’re hearing and implementing in dental practices all across the nation when it comes to key performance indicators (KPIs). As part of a business, you want to make solid decisions to improve your practice based on...  Read More
Episode : #623: 2024 = Best Year of Your Life
Happy New Year, Dental A-Team! This year is your year. Kiera encourages listeners to commit to a beautiful year, to create a word for 2023 (and shares her own), and come up with SMART goals for your practice and personal life that will help you keep your word in mind. Share your word and goals with...  Read More
Episode : #622: 12 Point Systems Checklist for 2024
If you’ve tuned in loyally over the past few months, you know that Kiera and Tiff have walked through 12 different systems your practice should have in place to be successful. This episode is the fluffy red bow on top of those systems. Kiera and Tiff review how the Dental A-Team stacks up and break...  Read More
Don't Let 2024 Be Just Another Year of Surviving as a Dentist
Running a dental practice is hard. No doubt about it. Running a PROFITABLE dental practice that serves you and your life (not the other way around) seems to be so far out of reach to so many dentists. But it doesn't need to be that way. It's easy to sit and think "I want my life to be xyz" but the...  Read More
Episode : #621: Hiring: Innovate or Die
The final of 12 systems is being previewed in this episode: hiring and onboarding! Join Kiera and Tiff to discover how the Dental A-Team will help improve your hiring/onboarding system in 2023. This is an easy zone to improve, especially with DAT by your side. Tune in to understand how operations...  Read More
Episode : #620: Mindset Meets Reality
Kiera’s giving three steps to make 2024 a year your entire practice can crush. It’s as easy as one-two-three: Expect to crush it Map out your goals and be disciplined Stick to it Kiera also shares insight on the stumbling blocks most practices face, and how to navigate them and come out on top.  Read More
Episode : #618: How to Make Your Practice Profitable
As a business owner, do you want freedom, autonomy, growth opportunity, and less stress? Kiera and Spiffy Tiffy preview the eleventh system the Dental A-Team will dive deep into next year: practice profitability. To make your practice operate at a high level, you need to put in the work and pull...  Read More
Episode : #617: The Best Confidence Boost
It’s Kiera’s favorite topic: speaking with integrity — to yourself and to other people. When it comes to keeping promises, set the standard with yourself. Boost your confidence today by being honest with yourself about your expectations and owning your words.  Read More
Episode : #616: Does Your Work Environment Feed Your Soul? With Dr. Maggie Augustyn
Dr. Maggie Augustyn is on the podcast to talk about burnout in the dentistry field. Dr. Augustyn gets personal about her experience with burnout and how she got to the other side of it, both personally and professionally. The biggest steps to get there was establishing a better management of...  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 : #613: Saving Time Hack With Brittany Stone
No-BS Brit joins Kiera for this episode to talk about a way to gain more freedom of time in your practice: with note templates! Believe it or not, establishing a solid note template protocol will save time on the clinical side. Kiera and Brit touch on … How to update note templates Why assessing...  Read More
Episode With Dr. Mustafa Shah-Khan and Dr. Richard Offut: #611 GPOs: Dentists Banding Together + Keeping Autonomy
Kiera is joined by Dr. Richard Offut and Dr. Mustafa Shah-Khan, co-founders of Synergy Dental Partners, to talk about the power of a dental group purchasing organization (or GPO). This approach is an opportunity for general practitioners to compete with mass corporate offices but preserve their...  Read More
Episode : #610: Buying/Selling Practices The Smart and Legal Way With David Cohen
David Cohen is a master at dental law, joining Kiera in this episode to discuss the transitions of buying/selling practices. The pair touches on the legal side of: trends being seen, pitfalls to avoid, benefits and red flags of selling to DSOs, doctor protection, future partner buy-out, and more. ...  Read More
Episode : #609: Let’s Get Elevated Hygiene With Tiffanie Trader
There’s a lot to know under the umbrella of a hygiene department. Kiera and Tiff touch on what the ideal and most efficient hygiene department looks like — including each hygienist bringing in 3 times their hourly rate — and how to run an assessment to know where your department falls on a 5-star...  Read More
Episode: #608: Real Story: 5X Practice Growth
It’s time for another office autopsy! Kiera shares the example of a practice she’s been working with for three years that has grown in value five times from what it started. In her time with the practice, they’ve successfully switched software, changed collection protocol, created an operations...  Read More
Episode : #605: Getting Real: Acquiring a Practice With Dr. Jenny Perna
Dr. Jenny Perna is once again on the podcast! With Kiera, she gets detailed into the realities of acquiring a new practice, and all the miles that come with it. They touch on the following:          Working with banks during a sale, and how to supplement income               Conversations with the...  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
#604: Signs Your Practice is Successful
Many dental practices are toeing the line of success and struggle these days. Because the Dental A-Team is visiting so many practices, the consultants are seeing a theme emerge of what sets these two groups apart. Kiera shares those common threads: The offices doing well have … Strong leaders...  Read More
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