The Productive Dentist Podcast
The Productive Dentist Podcast
The Productive Dentist Podcast features Dr. Bruce B. Baird, America's Most Productive Dentist, as he shares the wisdom and knowledge he's gained in 30+ years of dentistry to help dentists become more productive and live better lives.
Productive Dentist Podcast

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Listen Here I get a lot of emails promoting the newest product or technique. I’m sure you have the same thing in your inbox, too. How do we sort the contenders from the pretenders? I think its common sense to say don’t take everything you hear as gospel. I know I’ve certainly made a few mistakes...  Read More
Listen Here Today I’m going to talk about something that hit me between the eyes. It doesn’t really matter how old you are – 20, 30, 60, 70 – it can happen anytime in our career. I lost one of my best friends this year and I found that I started feeling old. This is what can happen anytime in your...  Read More
Listen Here I’ve been getting questions from doctors all over the country about the Netflix documentary “Root Cause” that follows the experiences of one person’s experience with root canal treatment and the alleged systemic issues he claims are associated with root canal treatment. Let me just...  Read More
Listen Here Another one of the risk factors I’ve added to my arsenal is psychological or psycho risk. What’s important for you to understand as a dentist is that some of your patients are psycho. And I like to find out who those patients are before I do a treatment plan. These are the patients...  Read More
Listen Here Dr. John Kois lists 4 risk factors which we’ve already covered, but over the years I’ve added a few. One is physiologic risk. I see a lot of people with sleep apnea, allergies, and other seemingly non-dental issues and I’ve come to consider them as physiologic risks. I highly suggest...  Read More
Listen Here Today we’re talking about the 4th risk factor – aesthetic risk. I don’t know if this has ever happened to you but I’ve had a few patients who have been very difficult to match when putting in crowns or other aesthetic work. I call patients “high aesthetic risk” if, when they smile,...  Read More
Listen Here We’re continuing today with risk factors that I talk with patients about so that they understand it’s their problem and not mine. Today we’re going to talk about functional risks such as clenching and grinding. When I ask dentists how many of their patients should be wearing guards...  Read More
Listen Here Biomechanical risk is more than just decay. A lot of us think that we first check for perio, then decay. I also look for acidity or erosion. Erosion can absolutely destroy a person’s dentition. When I see signs of erosion on an adult I start thinking about sleep apnea. If I see signs...  Read More
Listen Here How I think about risk factors changed my attitude towards dentistry. Knowing patient risks are not my fault lowered my stress and improved my love of what I do. Now, when I go through a patient’s mouth, I look for periodontal risk, decay risk, functional risk, aesthetic risk,...  Read More
Listen Here I had an epiphany during the first conference I went to about risk factors. Up until that point, I’d spent my career redoing dentistry that failed that I thought was my fault. After all, in dental school, they taught if my margins were good and I was perfect, then my dentistry would...  Read More
Listen Here I used to tell my kids to walk with a sense of purpose when they were dilly dallying. Come on; this is an intentional activity. Dentistry, too, is an intentional activity: I’m walking into work, I’ve looked at my schedule, I know what’s coming. Dentistry is a stressful career. While I...  Read More
Listen Here Today’s episode comes from Bora Bora…so excuse any boat noises you might hear. I think lifestyle has a lot to do with dentistry. If you don’t have the funds to be able to do your bucket list items, then really what are you doing? In my career, when I focused on good communication...  Read More
Listen Here Using CAD/CAM and CEREC is an opportunity to change how you practice. I personally have a mouth full of dentistry. So the question for me has always been what type of material do I want in my mouth? But we’ll circle back to this later. So how do we do we schedule CAD/CAM and CEREC...  Read More
Listen Here Today we’re going to talk about something that is super important to me: delegation. Delegation is the process of working with people and getting them to do things they really want to do so we as doctors don’t have to do everything ourselves. Some people call me a “master delegator”...  Read More
Listen Here The first 15 years of my practice, my team hated coming to work. I was the worst boss on the planet. But I wanted a practice I could be proud of and share with other dentists, so I had to change the way I related to my team. When I was in the army, I was fortunate enough to have a...  Read More
Listen Here Long-term dental success starts with staying on time and on schedule so you are able to predictably produce numbers per hour. We’ve worked with thousands of dentists and helped them understand the concepts we teach about scheduling at Productive Dentist Academy. The problem for many...  Read More
Listen Here Of all the things we teach at Productive Dentist Academy, scheduling is one of the most complicated. It’s the one thing that costs dental practices more in long-term revenue than anything else. First off, what I teach is scheduling to productivity not time. If you’re taught anything...  Read More
Listen Here Let me ask you a question: are you the hurricane in your office? As the leader of your dental practice, you set the tone of the practice and the team. Believe me, your team doesn’t show up everyday trying to tick you off; they really want to do a good job. So, what’s going on? In...  Read More
Listen Here There’s a conflict in your practice. It’s a conflict between your administrative office and your treatment coordinators. What happens when your team is at odds what happens to your productivity? It’s pretty obvious that productivity goes down. So what causes this? It’s about...  Read More
Listen Here What happens when your hygienist, or assistant, or front office staff does something you don’t like? Or what about when a patient comes in and complains about an issue? Those situations create stress points in your practice. Just about every dentist could tell you stress within your...  Read More
Listen Here Meet Dr. Bruce B. Baird. A pioneer in dental implants, scheduling, leadership, and practice management, Dr. Baird shares his journey from young army doctor to one of America’s most productive dentists as well as the struggles and lightbulb moments in his career that made him the...  Read More
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