The Shared Practices Podcast - Archives

This week on Shared Practices see's the return of Dr Olya Banchik, Dr. Banchik is on the forefront of cosmetic dentistry and studied at the world-renowned Las Vegas Institute for Advanced Dental Studies, where she has completed numerous courses in the most advanced techniques of aesthetic dentistry and treatment of temporomandibular disorders. Recently Olya moved from Vegas to North Carolina to st...

Download the guide Dr. Banchik used to analyze practices in her area   This week on Shared Practices see's the return of Dr Olya Banchik, Dr. Banchik is on the forefront of cosmetic dentistry and studied at the world-renowned Las Vegas Institute for Advanced Dental Studies, where she has completed numerous courses in the most advanced techniques of aesthetic dentistry and treatment of temporomandi...

Download the guide Dr. Banchik used to analyze practices in her area   Dr. Banchik is committed to treating all of her patients like members of her family – with individualized attention and a great concern for the patients comfort. Her specialized education combined with broad experience provides her patients with state of the art, personalized dental care. As an active member of several dental o...

This week's guest on Shared Practices is Dr. Alex Sharp. Alex is a graduate from UCA Honors College, with a degree in Biology, Spanish, and Interdisciplinary Studies, and was then accepted into the University of Tennessee College of Dentistry. Following his graduation, Dr. Sharp returned to Arkansas, where he practiced in Searcy, Little Rock, and North Little Rock, prior to purchasing his practice...

Adam is the VP of Marketing at Spear Education, was instrumental in the development of Spear's online education platform and has worked in a variety of industries, from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies. Adam has experience building exceptional organizations in a variety of business climates. He chaired the College Relations Committee for the Greater Phoenix chapter of the National Society for Hu...

This week's guest is Dr. Martin Mendelson from Spear Education, Dr. Mendelson is a Spear Resident Faculty member and Spear's Executive Vice President of Client Services. He is also the host of Spear Seminars and the Spear Summit. Dr. Mendelson has contributed to leading industry publications, is a voting member of the ADA Standards Committee for CAD/CAM in Dentistry and has lectured nationally and...

This week on Shared Practices Richard interviews Rachel Wall, 20-year veteran hygienist, consultant, speaker and CEO/founder of Inspired Hygiene . Rachel has written for, and been featured in, numerous industry journals including Dentistry Today, Progressive Dentist, RDH, and Hygienetown. She recently received the 2012 Dental Excellence Award from DrBicuspid.com for "Most Effective Dental Hygienis...

This episode of Shared Practices has previously aired on the Dentalpreneur podcast and sees Richard talking to Mark Costes and Alastair MacDonald following the Voices of Dentistry conference. Dr. Costes is founder of the Dental Success Institute, a company committed to helping dentists to achieve their full potential, while recapturing their passion for dentistry. He is also the founder of the Hor...

This Week's episode guests a returning friend of the show Kiera Dent. Kiera is the owner and founder of Dental Placement Pros and Kiera's Dental Consulting. She is partner in Zen Dental Supplies, consults in 50 client offices nationwide, recruits for over 60 dental offices nationwide and owns multiple dental offices. This episode is a short departure from case acceptance as Kiera joins us to discu...

Dr. Chris Bowman is a full-time practicing dentist, speaker, author, and dental coach from Charlotte, North Carolina. A graduate of the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill School of Dentistry, he started Advanced Dentistry of Charlotte in 1996. A consummate student of business systems, communications and marketing, Dr. Bowman is dedicated to helping dentists from the US and internationally...

This week on Shared Practices we are joined by Laura and Michael from Wonderist. Wonderist Agency was started by Laura Maly at a kitchen table in Los Angeles as a small, one-woman marketing consulting group. Two years later, it got wings when Michael joined the team, and a full-service agency was born. Since then, Wonderist Agency has been dedicated to providing data-driven results and personalize...

This week's guest is Sandy Pardue, Sandy is a Senior Consultant at Classic Practice Resources and a Lecturer specializing in growing practices and de-stressing practice owners. Sandy is one of the industry's leading authorities on team training, organization systems and processes. Her years of consulting and speaking experience gives her a unique advantage and understanding of what it takes to mot...

This week on Shared Practices our guest is Dr. Derek Williams, the guest of our most popular episode. Derek began a practice in East Texas straight out of school and took that practice previously collecting $570k per year, up to $1.3M, and would become a multi-practice owner and build a mini-DSO.   In this episode Derek talks about some of the ways he refined his methodology in the early part of h...

This week sees the return of Dr. Chris Salierno to the show. Chris lectures internationally on clinical dentistry and practice management and is currently the editor of Dental Economics. Magazine. While in dental school he was the national president of the American Student Dental Association. Chris returns to the show to discuss all things case acceptance. Chris has implemented his own systems for...

This week's guest on Shared Practices is Dr. Richard Evangelista. Richard is the CEO and founder of Dentalforce, with over 15 years of proven success in dental practice and dental management. In the last five years, Dentalforce has grown from 5 locations with 30 employees to now over 40 locations with a little over 400 employees. The company is revolutionizing traditional dental management by comb...

This week on Shared Practices our guest is Wade Pilling. Wade graduated in 2005 from the University of Louisville and has grown 2 practices that both produce over 7 figures by mastering the technique of large treatment plan acceptances. Wade also has advanced training in cosmetic and reconstructive dentistry, lectures across the country and has great expertise in high production, low volume practi...

On this week's episode of Shared Practices, our guests are Dr. Danielle Davis and Dr. Austin Davis, two of our listeners from Texas who found their inspiration to start their own practice from listening to our show. They also produce a blog documenting their dental start-up journey, intended to give young dentists an insight into what it is like starting a practice early in your career. In this ep...

This week's guest on Shared Practices is Paul Edwards, CEO of CEDR HR Solutions and now a management expert and a well-known healthcare-industry speaker. CEDR have for almost a decade been helping dentistry practices with HR solutions in all fifty states. Helping dentists put enforceable employee policies in place so you can stay compliant with all employment laws in your state and simplify your d...

This week's guest for episode nine of case acceptance season is Adam McWethy. Adam is currently the vice president of marketing for Spear Education, and previously served the company as director of human resources. Adam has a master's degree in human resources and industrial relations from the University of Minnesota's Carlson School of Management. He has nearly 10 years of experience in human res...

Episode 8 of this season of Shared Practices see's George interviewing Paul Goodman. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine, Dr. Goodman has been practicing dentistry for over 10 years and shares his personal experience with retiring dentists in managing the expectations of their patients and team members during the transition process. He is the founder of Rising De...

Welcome back to episode seven of this season of Shared Practices. This week we interview David Ahearn of Design Ergonomics, who you may recognize as a frequent sponsor of the show. David is a graduate of the University of Michigan School of Dentistry. Studying ergonomics in dentistry over the years with the assistance of ergonomists from NASA, Industry and with engineering consultants from univers...

Episode 6 of Case Acceptance season features an interview with Scott Leune. For the last 8 years, Dr. Leune has lectured to thousands of dental professionals & executives sharing his proven systems, marketing and practice design, leading to consistently sold-out seminars. He has been featured in numerous dental publications and listed as the 'most-subscribed-to-person' on DentalTown (the premier o...

It's episode 5 of case acceptance season. This week George interviews Charles Biami, Founder and Chief Marketing Strategist at Driven Dental Implant Marketing, Charles specializes in high value implant patients who require a more extensive treatment plan. The conversation covers Charles' marketing approach to case acceptance and he goes in to detail about how he coaches teams to handle higher valu...

With episode 4 of case acceptance season we welcome back friend of the show Kiera Dent. With 15 years of dental experience, starting out as a dental assistant and transitioning to front office; Kiera has owned three dental offices and now her own consultation business. Kiera has a wealth of knowledge on case acceptance and provides plenty of new insights in this episode. In this discussion Richard...

  Welcome back to our third installment in our case acceptance season. We are extremely excited to have Dr Paul Homoly on the show. For those that have been living under a rock, Dr. Homoly is world class clinician that has transferred into a world class speaker/consultant.   In this episode, Dr. Homoly breaks down how he LISTEN'S to patients to find out what their WANTS are and how he presents tre...