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Key Takeways
- Use the 80/20 rule to determine which patients are best for your practice.
- Make sure your house is in order first before you invite people in.
- Make sure you have the right team and that the team believes your vision.
- Your hygienists’ first objective should be creating relationships with your patients and how you empower them to have a healthy mouth.
- The beauty of dentistry is that you don’t need that many patients to make a comfortable living.
- A lot of dentists think they can skip the process of mastering analog dentistry and think a computer will fix everything for you. Dentists need to start taking responsibility for what they’re doing.
- Digital dentistry isn’t about changing the analog concepts, it’s taking those concepts and streamlining them.
- Nightguards are the hidden money-maker in 3D dentistry.
- DSO’s are coming for the general dentist. If the general dentist doesn’t find ways to differentiate themselves they’re going to get gobbled up.
- Changing the public’s perception of dentistry isn’t a paradigm shift, it’s a paradigm cliff. If you’re not ready for it, you’re going to fall right off and die.
- Middle of the road solo practitioner is going to disappear. Medicaid practices will get more powerful. Service-oriented dental practices will thrive tremendously. Labs who embrace digital technology will be successful.
- Digital dentistry will reinvigorate the whole profession.
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