The Dentalpreneur Podcast w/ Dr. Mark Costes

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1535: Associates, Brokers & Practice Ownership Part 1 Sep 14, 2022

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Are DSOs bankrolling dental schools? Do dental graduates obtain the education and qualification needed to pay back the steep cost of their student debts? Dr. Mark Costes interviews Dr. Paul Goodman aka "Dr. Nacho," Founder of Dental Nachos and Dentist Job Connect, in this two-part episode. They also address one of the biggest problems facing practice owners – finding and hiring associates and hygienists.

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1534: Working Through Burnout Sep 13, 2022

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Speaking on the Dental Marketing Theory Podcast hosted by Gary Bird, Dr. Mark Costes guests on the show to retrace his dental journey. He shares the challenges that made him develop a huge respect for the profession and pursue it to combine his clinical and entrepreneurial savvy. He also looks back at how he pioneered dental assisting schools and the origins of the Dental Success organizations aimed at helping dentists achieve their full potential.

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1533: Automated Consult Sep 12, 2022

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Today's podcast guests present a virtual consultation platform that digitally automates workflows to increase your case acceptance. Laura Maly and Michael Anderson chat with Dr. Mark Costes about Your Virtual Consult, a disruptive technology that will save you chair time and lower patients' entry barriers by providing an all-new degree of convenience for communication.

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1532: Frameworks and Analysis Sep 09, 2022

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A structure for conducting effective dental meetings. Regular departmental assessments. Advanced data tracking and analysis. These are just some of the topics taken up by Dr. Mark Costes today from the recent Dental Success Summit aimed at turning non-producers in your team into producers. These frameworks will get your team members to buy into the pursuit of the practice's overall goals.

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1531: Continual Practice Evolution Sep 08, 2022

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How do you jumpstart systemization? Dr. Mark Costes lets us in on some Mastermind best practices from the Dental Success Summit this year. From End-of-Day Protocols to Time Journal Exercises, he breaks down how these systemization processes eliminate unnecessary low value tasks and prioritizes high value activities. He also tackles team authorship of the Operations Manual and the way to have an efficient organizational chart.

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1530: Hygiene - Health & Profit Part 2 Sep 07, 2022

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Part 2 of Dr. Ben Kacos' talk from the recently held Mastermind meeting delves on how to calibrate systems and processes for your dental hygienist. He also tackles the importance of having Periodontal Protocols, daily metrics, and monthly goals for this to become a revenue-producing department affecting the bottom line and positively impacting the profitability of the practice.

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1529: Hygiene - Health & Profit Part 1 Sep 06, 2022

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Fresh from the Mastermind meeting in San Antonio, Texas over the weekend is Part 1 of this talk from Blackbelt Coach, Dr. Ben Kacos. He focuses on optimizing the dental hygienist department and how to make it not just profitable but become a caring patient health advocate. He likewise stresses the importance of leadership, extreme ownership and coaching with love for growing the production of the hygienist.

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1528: The Physiology of Habit Formation Sep 05, 2022

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Let's be clear about our intentions. In this episode, Dr. Mark Costes asks some tough questions on life priorities, circles of influence and areas for improving performance. Culled from the recent Mastermind meeting in San Antonio, Texas, he queries the choices we make, the battles we fight and the habits we form based on these life choices. He also explains the physiological basis for the routines and habits we develop.

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1527: From Zero to Biller Part 2 Sep 02, 2022

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Part 2 of this excerpt from DSN's Lady Leaders Webinar Series led by Ashlee Hirschfeld goes into the essential next steps of training billing and insurance personnel. Dr. Summer Kassmel and her team disclose what should be expected beyond the 60-day onboarding and training. These include insurance reverification, coding knowledge, dental terminology and creating claims. They also give tips on when to outsource this department and what mistakes to avoid during training.

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1526: From Zero to Biller Part 1 Sep 01, 2022

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From the Lady Leaders Webinar Series of the Dental Success Network comes this episode on Training for the Billing and Insurance Department. DSN COO Ashlee Hirschfeld interviews Dr. Summer Kassmel, Debbie Dodson, and Allison Puppe on how to transform non-dental-industry rookies into billing and insurance rockstars. In Part 1 we tackle how to find, hire, and train non-industry talent, the basics of dental insurance terminology, resources for training, and new hire red flags.

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