The
Dentalpreneur
Podcast
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The Dentalpreneur Podcast with Dr. Mark Costes is one of the top dental podcasts in the country, drawing tens of thousands of listeners each month. This isn’t your typical dental podcast—Mark covers everything from business and marketing to services, motivation, and more, keeping each episode both insightful and entertaining.
Tune in as Mark interviews not only dental professionals but also influential voices beyond dentistry, including Astronaut Clayton Anderson, elite athlete Ben Greenfield, bestselling author Ryan Holiday, former Navy SEAL Jocko Willink, and endurance athlete David Goggins, among others!
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1533: Automated Consult
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. EPISODE […]
1532: Frameworks and Analysis
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 […]
1531: Continual Practice Evolution
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 […]
1530: Hygiene – Health & Profit Part 2
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 […]
1529: Hygiene – Health & Profit Part 1
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 […]
1528: The Physiology of Habit Formation
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 […]
1527: From Zero to Biller Part 2
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. […]
1526: From Zero to Biller Part 1
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, […]
1525: Numbers You Need to Know
This power packed podcast takes on a Ted Talk format from when Dr. Mark Costes spoke at the recent “Super Dentist Boostcamp” held in Philadelphia. Here he takes us on his dental practice journey that was not without setbacks as he credits much of his success to the mistakes he made from early private practice […]
1524: Your Practice’s Technology Stack
Today’s Dentalpreneur Podcast guest has demonstrated success in overseeing operations, improving efficiencies, increasing patient satisfaction, and driving revenue for the DSO sector for over 23 years. As an innovative operations strategist, Maria Fuertes has co-created a proprietary Practice Operating Cycle for Carestack, a concept for operational service excellence and compassionate people development. She shares with […]
