The Dental Practice Fixers Podcast Featuring Secret Shopper Calls to Dental Offices

Would a patient drive past twenty other dental offices to go to your practice? Would they regret it if they had to transfer to another office? Can you and your team quickly spout out a bunch of reasons why a patient would choose you over all of the others? Hopefully you can answer all of these questions with a big YES! So let’s find out why on this episode of The Dental Practice Fixers podca...

There are five issues that just about every dental practice experiences, and on this episode of The Dental Practice Fixers podcast for dentists you can hear what they are along with some solutions. Then on our mystery shopper calls, a potential patient with stinky breath calls some practices for advice. Did they try to appoint him or were their responses just as stinky as the caller? Listen to fin...

Sometimes it’s a little overwhelming to make dental practice improvements through huge changes. But the good news is, you may not have to! You can improve your dental practice marginal gains. In this episode of The Dental Practice Fixers podcast for dentists, we show how small changes can get HUGE results! Then of course there are the mystery shopper calls. It just seems that no one can get...

The relationship between general practitioner dentists and specialists should be one that is not only good for the patients but good for both practices. On today’s Dental Practice Fixers dental podcast we talk about some easy ways to make that happen. Then on to the mystery shopper calls where the theme continues. If you do Invisalign but aren’t getting many cases, you’re about t...

Should we give our patients what they want? Do our patients really know what they want? Is it good for our dental practice to give it to them? On today’s edition of The Dental Practice Fixers podcast we discuss how to make your practice more successful by doing just giving our patients what they want. Plus, the mystery shopper calls teach two very important lessons. Listen now! Got a questio...

Does everyone in your dental practice truly understand why certain clinical decisions are made? Your practice needs to be “Clinically Calibrated” – find out why and how on this edition of The Dental Practice Fixers Podcast for dentists. For example, why would we do a crown instead of a two or three surface restoration? Scaling and root planing instead of a prophy? Do an endo in-h...

What’s the number one enemy of a great practice? In this episode, Dr. Richard Madow explores a possible candidate. Then, the mystery shopper calls are, well, pretty amazing. Tune in to the The Dental Practice Fixers Dental Podcast for Dentists to listen now!!

Using artificial intelligence in the dental office is such a hot topic these days, but most of the advice we’re seeing is either impractical or totally useless. In today’s episode of The Dental Practice Fixers Dental Podcast for Dentists, Dr. Rich gives two solid examples of how to use AI to improve patient communications. Then speaking of communication, things go downhill rapidly on o...

There are a bunch of things a dental patient should never ever see or hear in a dental practice, and on today’s episode of The Dental Practice Fixers Dental Podcast for Dentists we get the list rolling. Then, it’s on to the secret shopper calls, where we learn why front-desk training should be more than just “Here’s the phone – answer it!”

“Why is that crown so expensive?” can be a tough question for a dentist to answer, especially in a way that gets a caller to appoint, Well, that’s the mystery shopper call we did on today’s episode of The Dental Practice Fixers dental podcast for dentists. The answers ranged from horrible to hilarious to something that has never happened before! You gotta check it out. Plus...

Would you like to have a simple system so that when someone calls to cancel at the last minute that spot can easily be filled 90% of the time? You will after hearing this episode of The Dental Practice Fixers dental podcast for dentists. Then we do three mystery shopper calls, and one of the offices actually does something right! Listen in to see what.  

Very often the first contact a potential new patient has with your practice is your website, and most dental websites have some obvious (and easy to fix) mistakes! On this episode of The Dental Practice Fixers dental podcast, Dr. Richard Madow gives some very simple fixes to correct these crucial areas. Then, our mystery shopper calls take the theme further, asking practices about things seen on t...

Let’s face it, not all patients are a good fit for your dental practice. In this episode of The Dental Practice Fixers dental podcast for dentists, Dr. Richard Madow gives some quick and easy patient selection tips to save you many headaches, including the number one rule! Then we have four mystery shopper calls, and guess what? Someone almost kinda gets it right!! Listen now!!!  

Hey Doc – why the heck would you ever want to do this? In this episode of The Dental Practice Fixers Podcast for dentists, Dr. Rich answers one of the most frequently asked questions, and that’s the response….sort of. Then of course we do some mystery shopper calls, and miraculously someone almost gets it right!!   Richard H. Madow, DDS:    Hey there, I’m Dr. Richard M...

Dr. Rich explains the factors in dental practice success by reliving the history of The Madow Center in this special edition of The Dental Practice Fixers dental podcast for dentists. So many listeners have been asking how The Madow Center got started, and it’s all covered here!  

Did a video promoting a dental seminar actually make Dr. Rich hurl? Well, almost. Find out why in this episode of The Dental Practice Fixers dental podcast for dentists, and also learn about why it is often a bad idea to get distracted by passive income and side hustle opportunities. Then we present some of the strangest mystery shopper calls in the history of the show!

Ready to improve your cash flow and decrease your overhead in 2023? On today’s episode of The Dental Practice Fixers dental podcast for dentists, we’ll reveal ten things you can do right now to get 2023 off to a great start. And then, four mystery shopper calls  – four bad results. Don’t make the same mistakes!!

What are two questions you should ask every patient during the initial exam that will totally WOW them? On today’s dental podcast for dentists, Dr. Richard Madow reveals that, along with a simple trick you can do that will actually get patients to ASK YOU for cosmetic dental procedures! It’s easy, fun, and something you should be doing anyway. And then, the mystery shopper calls get to...

Want your patients to accept more treatment, get adult fluoride, and all that other good stuff? In this episode of The Dental Practice Fixers dental podcast for dentists, Dr. Richard Madow shares how an experience at a hotel led him to realize an extremely important step in influencing our patients. It will help you become a better leader as well!!

Why be the best practice at what you do when you can be the only practice who does what you do?! It’s much easier than it sounds, and on this edition of The Dental Practice Fixers Dr. Rich will show you how! Of course we follow that up with three mystery shopper calls (yikes!) and a very special offer! And oh yeah – we talk about The Waffle House and The Grateful Dead too!!

Do you have a supercharged perio therapy department, or a glorified “cleaning lady” doing bloody prophys? If you’re like most dental practices, unfortunately it’s the latter. On this week’s podcast we give five reasons why, and simple solutions to get your patients healthy and increase practice revenues. The theme continues on the mystery shopper calls, and the result...

There is something that most dentists do every single day that causes chaos, confusion, and makes the practice not nearly as productive as it should be. But fear not – in today’s episode of The Dental Practice Fixers dental podcast for dentists we have a solution! Then on to the mystery shopper calls, where someone actually gets it right….kinda…… Don’t miss it!

What do the Choco Taco and getting your patients to refer and schedule their treatment have to do with one another? Lots! In this episode of The Dental Practice Fixers dental podcast for dentists, we explore why Dr. Robert Cialdini’s “Principles of Influence” are so important in your practice. Then the mystery shopper calls take a weird turn as a dentist actually answers the phon...

There is something that afflicts most dentists, and it can cause severe problems in their practices and lives. It’s called “Paralysis By Analysis,” and we give some symptoms and solutions on this episode of The Dental Practice Fixers, the dental podcast for dentists. Then on our mystery shopper calls we have some real doozies, including something that has never happened before in...

Every dental consultant these days seems to be teaching how to drop PPOs. But my advice is “not so fast, cowboy (or cowgirl!).” In this episode of The Dental Practice Fixers dental podcast for dentists, you’ll find out why. Then in our mystery shopper calls, something happened that has never happened before in the history of our mystery shopper calls!