The Very Dental Podcast Network

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Very Clinical: Enter the Superfans! Dec 28, 2023

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"Does the nog come in any other flavors besides egg?"

-Kevin Fryer

The Very Clinical guys finish the year strong by inviting two Very Clinical superfans to join them for a rip roaring round of "what would you do?"

Dr. Erin Elliott and Dr. Gary Holtzclaw fill out the Very Clinical brain trust to give their answer to some diabolical situations:

How do you restore a grungy teenager's occlusal decay when there is an operculum in your way?
The patient needs crowns from 23-26. Patient is choosing to do 2 now and 2 later due to insurance reasons. What's your move?
The patient needs a gold crown on #15 replaced. When you did it 15 years ago, you told them that gold is the best material. You're in network with their insurance and now they won't cover gold. What's your move?

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CAD-Ray offers the best service on a wide variety of digital scanners, printers, mills and even their very own browser based design software, Clinux! CAD-Ray has been a huge supporter of the Very Dental Podcast Network and I can tell you that you'll get no better service on everything digital dentistry than the folks from CAD-Ray. Go check them out at verydentalpodcast.com/CADRay!

Very Dental Student: Don't Make Systems too Complicated with Dr. Sarah Blair Dec 27, 2023

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Mohammed is joined by Dr. Sarah Blair of Indie Practices to talk about leadership, dental teams and early practice ownership for new dentists!

What are systems?
What makes a system good or bad?
What are KPIs?
Which KPIs are important?
The 6 Essential Things that Indie Practices coaches
When is the right time to hire a coach?
What types of practices does Indie Practices work with?

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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! Dec 24, 2023

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All of us at the Very Dental Podcast Network are wishing you the best holiday season ever! This week we'll be releasing new episodes on Wednesday and Thursday instead of Monday and Tuesday!

We'll catch up with you then!

Happy Holidays!

Very Dental: The Very Dental Holiday Spectacular 2023! Dec 22, 2023

Show notes

What better way to celebrate the holidays that a massive "recommendation engine" from Al!

Some links from the show:

Dental Stuff

Christmas-y media

Not Christmas-y media

Last Murderbot Diaries installment "System Collapse"

Stuff that's not media and not Christmas-y

Sturmfist 4 gloves

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Very Clinical: Will AI Be a Net Positive in Dentistry? with Charlie Fryer Dec 19, 2023

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Zach and Kevin are joined again by Kevin's son Charlie! Charlie has a very technical background including using artificial intelligence to diagnose class II caries!

Today's episode features some hot artificial intelligence and where it will become useful in dentistry.

The key to AI is "learning"
Where do they get their data?
DSOs and AI
WE'RE the data!

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AME: The Correction Dec 18, 2023

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Al tells a story about podcasting, downloads and ego.

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Group Function: Can Partnerships work? with Ritter and Ramsey (throwback) Dec 15, 2023

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Partnerships in dentistry. You've heard the stories. A couple years ago, my friends Dr. Chris Ramsey and Dr. Rob Ritter joined me to talk about what it takes to have a successful dental partnership and the amazing course they've designed to show you execute the kind of dentistry that you want to do from consult to finished case! Some of the topics they discussed were:

When do you renovate your office and what kind of dental office decor stays "timeless."
"The Protocol" is a course that Ritter and Ramsey designed to show people HOW they execute the broader concepts that you might learn from Spear, Kois or Pankey.
- A complete workflow from consult to finished case
The benefits of small group learning in combination with hands on.
Dental partnerships are notoriously bad!
How Ritter found Ramsey
The mechanics of a long term dental partnership
"You can't have two kings in the castle" is the WRONG way to look at things.
You work for the partnership and the partnership is bigger than any one person.
The solution: lose the ego
Ritter and Ramsey 2.0
The upside of a functional partnership
Choose business partners wisely!
- understand personalities
- understand philosophies
Treat the associate LIKE A PARTNER!
Learn to compromise! Learn to understand when you're wrong.
If you don't know, just say that you don't know.
Would you rather be right of happy?
The months for "The Protocol" 2022: February, May, August and November.

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Very Clinical: Charlie Fryer Explains Deep Learning and AI! Dec 12, 2023

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Kevin and Zach welcome a very special guest this week...Charlie Fryer! That would be Kevin's son!

Charlie isn't a dentist. In fact, he's a chemical engineer! But he knows a thing or two about AI. If you've ever wondered how AI will apply itself in dentistry, this episode is a deep dive with a VERY smart dude!

Kevin's endo course in Raleigh, NC on Groundhog Day 2024!

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Very Dental Shorts (Throwback): Bad Words Dec 11, 2023

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In today's throwback episode Alan talks about 4 words he avoids using with patients.

The four words he discusses:

Small (in terms of dental disease)
Dental "Insurance"
Expensive
Painful

Do you have any words you try and avoid during patient communication?

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Very Dental: A Talk About Behavioral Change with the ADA President Elect! Dec 08, 2023

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In this throwback episode (from 2021), Alan is joined by his friend Dr. Brett Kessler, who was recently announced as the ADA president elect! They have a VERY frank talk about how people make changes in their lives. Both of them are in long term recovery from drugs and alcohol which gives them an interesting perspective on how people make behavior changes in their life. Some of the topics we discuss are:

The "time machine" game and how our past experiences are formative
How do recovering people deal with social situations where people are drinking?
Dentists suffered during COVID because so much was out of their control
How do people make positive changes in their behavior?
Running sucks
Counting streaks
Results don't come fast enough to drive early motivation...so how do we maintain motivation?
Did fear of COVID change Al's behavior?
How much dental disease is preventable by behavior change (home care, diet, smoking, etc.)?
Is behavior change a simple matter of education? (spoiler: hell no!)
Consequences can drive behavior change. But they don't always.

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