Thursday, November 5, 2026
Your Source for Dental Industry Intelligence

Owning a practice and practicing dentistry are two different jobs, and dental school only prepared you for one of them. This section covers the other: building systems that hold without you in the room, leading a team that doesn’t need managing, and making the ownership decisions — scale, hire, restructure, hold – that determine what the next decade looks like. Written by people who have run practices, not studied them.

Far too many doctors suffer through easily fixable challenges and struggles simply because they think they can out work their problems. The reality of the business of dentistry is that it’s really a simple formula. Work less, make more by working smarter and focusing on value and quality over volume and quantity.
Last week, I gave you a bootcamp version of mindset when it comes to how you approach, think about, and view all things related to your goals, your life, your practice, and most of all your focus. We discussed how all of these factor into your ‘on purpose’ decision to be completely in harmony with being totally out of balance.
Gosh, just the gift of the ‘start’ is a reason to celebrate… but for the real winners in life, it’s far from enough. We are thinking about what we are going to do with it – never satisfied with its mere existence.
Far too many doctors suffer through easily fixable challenges and struggles simply because they think they can out work their problems. The reality of the business of dentistry is that it’s really a simple formula. Work less, make more by working smarter and focusing on value and quality over volume and quantity.
Last week, I gave you a bootcamp version of mindset when it comes to how you approach, think about, and view all things related to your goals, your life, your practice, and most of all your focus. We discussed how all of these factor into your ‘on purpose’ decision to be completely in harmony with being totally out of balance.
Gosh, just the gift of the ‘start’ is a reason to celebrate… but for the real winners in life, it’s far from enough. We are thinking about what we are going to do with it – never satisfied with its mere existence.