The Orthopreneurs Podcast with Dr. Glenn Krieger

Does your vision and mission for your practice align with where you are currently? Are you happy with your practice? These are questions every orthodontist should ask themselves often. Nothing is stopping you from having the practice you've always wanted. If you've been practicing for a while and don't like what you are in, sell it and start anew. If you find yourself in the practic...

When you meet Dr. Alyssa Carter, you can’t help but love her enthusiasm for life and her overwhelming positivity. Most of you have met her in CE courses, summits, and other orthodontic meets all over the country. How she manages to do all those CEs is just impressive. She is the most well-traveled orthodontist in North America. 💯 But she is always trying to learn new things that can help drive ef...

If you are in the OrthoPreneur Facebook group , you must have seen my posts a couple of weeks ago getting some sleep study done. It wasn't fun having more than 25 leads on me, but I wanted to experience what my patients go through when I send them for sleep-disordered breathing analysis. Also, I have some bit of trouble sleeping and started snoring more in my late 40s and early 50s. As I weig...

Today on the OrthoPreneur show, we have Dr. Michael T. DePascale. He is a partner at Kozlowski Orthodontics. Mike graduated top of his class from the Rutgers School of Dental Medicine and then went for residency at the University of Maryland Orthodontics program in 2017 before joining Kozlowski Orthodontics as an associate. His clinical excellence and continuous improvement in understanding the bu...

As an orthodontist or a dentist, there comes a time when you give serious thought to scaling your practice. But what nobody really talks about is what scalability actually means. Understanding what we need to do for our practices to get them bigger and more effective is key. Now, there are two types of scalability: Scaling up Scaling out In this episode, I take you through the process of scaling a...

Let’s face it. HR is one of those issues that we would rather not deal with as orthodontists. Finding and keeping a good talented team affordably is quite the challenge. Matters are not helped with the Great Resignation, which has turned out to be the Great Hop. It’s not all doom and gloom, though. There are a few tricks we can use to get the best out of our team. That’s why I have invited Paul Ed...

Today’s episode is in honor of the incredible Dr. Ben Fishbein and Amanda Floyd, who are speaking at the OrthoPreneur University on April 1st.  They will be speaking about marketing your orthodontic practice effectively for growth. There are a lot of ways you can market your practice. You can do social media, SEO, Facebook ads, Google AdWords, Instagram ads.  You can also do GP referrals, communit...

As orthodontists, we know that it takes a lot to build and grow a successful practice that provides us with the financial freedom and work-life balance we are all looking for. In this episode, I am joined by Dr. Ann Marie Gorczyca from Antioch, California. She is a practicing orthodontist of 32 years. In addition, she has authored 4 books on dental practice management. These are the books she wish...

In line with this month's theme of esthetic dentistry, today, we talk about the huge importance of the oblique smile. As orthodontists, we don't pay as much attention to that smile as we should, or at least many of us don't, despite talking a big game to our patients.   Even though the straight-on profile is very helpful and the front face image, the oblique smile is what makes a ca...

In this episode, I am joined by Dr. Nicole Scheffler. She is one of the amazing speakers lined up for the Orthopreneur Summit in September. Dr. Nicole Scheffler received her dental and orthodontic training from the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill. She practices full-time in Boone, North Carolina.   She lectures a lot on closing anterior open bites all over the country and the world. Bac...

Today, I want us to talk about something very few people in orthodontics speak about. We rarely even get to hear about it in ortho residencies. But it's an excellent opportunity to bring it up as we get closer to Dr. David Sarver's 4.5 CE Credit Course at the Orthopreneur University. We are talking about embrasures and their role in designing the perfect smile. Incisal and gingival embra...

As we get ready for Dr. David Sarver's course at the Orthoprenuer University, I have brought on the legend himself to give us just a small snippet of his 4.5 CE Credit Course Titled Interdisciplinary Smile Projection for Lifetime Esthetics. Dr. Sarver teaches us how to see things differently by using a face-first approach to treatment planning. This gives us a global picture of how facial est...

The overwhelming majority of orthodontists hate restorative dentistry. This is odd because, as an orthodontist, you probably have better hand skills and a better understanding of restorative dentistry than many restorative dentists. As part of our treatment planning, we need to consider restorative dentistry work to finish cases appropriately. In this and the coming episodes of 5 minute Fridays, w...

In this episode, I am joined by Dr. Sophie Acker. She is the VP of Global Product Management and Business Intelligence at DentalMonitoring. Sophie is originally from France before she moved to Holland to work for DentalMonitoring. She is a trained clinician who worked as a pediatric dentist before going back to business school and never went back to practicing. DentalMonitoring offers innovative s...

In keeping up with the case acceptance theme of this month’s five-minute Fridays, today, we talk about the role of Digital Co-diagnosis in case acceptance. Exceptional clinical images will help your Treatment Coordinator naturally present treatment options and dramatically increase your case acceptance. When your TC has great images in the room for patients to look at, the job is almost completely...

You’re probably spending a lot of money on marketing. Every case that walks through your door costs you something. We want them to get them to say yes to our treatment plans to drive up our case acceptance rate. The number 1 thing you can do as a doctor to help your treatment coordinator get better case acceptance is by getting out of the room quicker. You heard that right… as a doctor, you are no...

Orthodontists and dentists are not known for their financial planning skills. Lack of financial education and lack of time to learn about asset classes are the chief culprits.   We spend all our time developing orthodontic treatment plans but little to no time on financial treatment plans. According to ADEA research, almost every orthodontist and dentist will take about a 50% pay cut when they get...

Before the pandemic, virtual orthodontic consults were mainly viewed as more of a marketing gimmick to get new patients to our chairs. Fast forward to a post-pandemic world, virtual consults are now a convenient tool that every practice should provide potential new patients and existing patients. Virtual visits cannot replace in-office appointments, but they surely enhance the experience for both...

Are you looking at the ages on the intake forms when patients contact you to determine how best to reach out to them? If not, you are leaving a lot of cases on the table. If you are treating all generations the same way, you are making a BIG mistake . There is a huge difference in how baby boomers, millennials, and Gen X process technology and information, which feeds into how they want to be cont...

The OSO world is often mysterious to many orthodontists, mainly due to the misinformation and emotions associated with it. Matters are not helped by the fact that the private equity world is still not well understood by those outside of it. Smile Doctors recently went through a private equity transaction, but many people don't know what that means or really how it affects them as a potential...

Most orthodontist practice offices have not optimized their new patient process to increase their patient acceptance conversation rate.   They just put ads out there, new patients call in, TC gets their name and insurance info and books an appointment, and that's it.   The truth of the matter is you can be doing way more to help drive your new patient case acceptance conversion in a really di...

We had a chance to hear from Brandon Owen, John Pham, and Adam Schulhof as they sat down for a group interview at the Orthopreneurs Summit back in October. You've heard their names and you know their products, but do you really know the stories behind KLOwen, Inbrace, and Grin? For decades, the orthodontics field has not been as innovative as other consumer-facing fields. The reason for this...

Dr. Krieger was given one incredible piece of advice many years ago and it involved financial independence. Want to learn what it is? Take a listen to today's episode. 

It's a new year and a new opportunity to help your practice become what you want it to be. Do you want to work on production, overhead, clinical efficiencies, lower stress. Almost all goals need some form of measurement and that's why it's so important to quantify your goals for 2022. 

2021 was a VERY interesting year and this recap hits some of the high and low points of our discussions. From DSOs to Solvency, NFTs to crypto, staffing issues to economic uncertainty and inflation, student loans and marketing, there was a lot we worked through this year. Take a few minutes and listen to this end of year recap that is sure to help you have your best 2022.