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Dental A Team Podcast
This podcast is here to give dentists and all dental office team members, in EVERY position, TACTICAL and PRACTICAL TIPS to: - Be more efficient - Have more fun - Improve doctor and team communications - Eliminate frustration - And make your life easier! Jump in! We are thrilled you have decided to LEVEL UP and be part of the DENTAL A TEAM! New episodes every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.
Episodes
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#926: Update Your Ops Manual Without Breaking a Sweat
Tiff and Dana discuss updating your operations manual in a way that doesn't completely stress you out. They dive into details about each of the following…
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#925: Rising From Rock Bottom
In this powerful episode, Kiera is joined by John Jackson, executive director of Defy Ventures, Utah. John shares his history as a criminal, the time he spent…
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#924: 2025: Getting Creative For Your Practice
Kiera lays out a ton of ideas on how practices should be looking ahead to 2025, including the right percentage growth to aim for, why you actually can take…
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#923: End of Year Crunch? No Need to Panic!
Tiff and Dana spell out how to avoid the crunch-time that always seems to crop up each December. They give advice on how to find the just-right daily metric…
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#922: Thanks For Being Part of a Dream Come True!
Here's to the people who make your life incredible. Happy Thanksgiving! Episode resources: Reach out to Kiera Tune Into DAT's Monthly Webinar Practice Momentum…
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#921: Why Perio Calibration Matters (Even When You Think It Doesn't)
This one's for the doctors and hygienists. Tiff and Britt discuss why perio calibration matters, how accountability on top of that improves practice-wide…
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#920: Book Club: Right Person, Right Place, Cheaper Cost
Kiera and Britt review Who Not How: The Formula to Achieve Bigger Goals Through Accelerating Teamwork by Dan Sullivan. The theory is to consider how much time…
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#919: Debriefing 2024
Kiera and Britt outline how to go about assessing 2024 for your practice. They give three metric areas and discuss questions for evaluating each: Profitability…
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#918: 3 Steps For an Effective Leadership Meeting
Kiera breaks down need-to-know pieces of leadership meetings—ones that are regularly scheduled, have focused agendas, and require personal ownership from each…
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#917: The Art of Maximizing the EFDA
Tiff and Dana discuss the ideal ways to utilize expanded functions dental assistants (EFDAs). They provide different ideas of how an EFDA can effectively fill…
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#916: How to Boost Employee Engagement
The more engaged your team members are with your practice, the happier everyone (patients included) is. Kiera shares four questions to ask employees in…
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#915: Tips + Tricks to Make Coding Exciting (and Accurate)
Tiff and Dana discuss the importance of coding accuracy in dental practices. That includes universal codes everyone can understand, how to stay up-to-date on…
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#914: This Is Your Ideal Marketing Growth Strategy
Josh Scott of Studio EightyEight is back for more! He joins Kiera to talk about the marriage of creativity with performance marketing for dental practices, how…
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#913: How To Win Your Patients Over
Kiera is a guest on Dr. Gallagher's Podcast in this crossover episode! There is a lot of important ground covered here, including how to establish the ideal…
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#912: Are You On Track For 2024 To End?
Kiera gives listeners advice on what they should be checking in on with their practices as 2024 begins to wind down. This could be finances, operations…
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#911: Building Your Perfect Day Is as Easy as This
Often when scheduling appointments, it's all about the patient. But what about the doctor or team members? Britt and Tiff give tips for scheduling while…
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#910: How To Turn 4 Dental Practice Tricks Into Treats!
Happy Halloween! In this episode, Kiera lists four "tricks" in dental practices that might scare a practice owner off, and gives advice on how to turn them…
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#909: How to Stay Consistent During the End-of-Year Rush
Tiff and Britt are here to give advice on how to maintain consistency during the busiest times. They talk about keeping a positive mindset when things become…
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#908: Book Club: Prioritize A Higher Level of Fun (!!!)
Kiera and Dana download the latest Dental A-Team book, The Power of Fun: How to Feel Alive Again by Catherine Price. Specifically, the two discuss why it's so…
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#907: Successful Step-by-Step From 4 Ops to 8 Ops and Insane Growth
Kiera speaks with Drs. Nick and Whitney Forsythe about their journey of being married and buying (then growing) a dental practice, and where they are now…
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#906: 3 Ways a Consultant Can Help You Thrive Now and in 2025
Did you know? Practices working with the Dental A-Team tend to see a 10 to 30% increase in revenue and at least a 5 to 10% decrease in overhead. In this…
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#905: All About Fees: Increases, Negotiations, and More
Tiff and Britt discuss what the end of 2024 should ideally look like as far as fee schedule analyses and negotiations. They touch on comparisons within your…
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#904: Getting Creative in a Saturated Market
Kiera and Britt are joined by Dr. Renae Sweeney, a dentist in South Florida who put in a lot of work to make her practices stand out. The three discuss how she…
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#903: Happy National Boss's Day!
Tiff, Britt, and Dana are on the podcast to celebrate those guiding dental practices around the country, including Dental A-Team's own, Kiera Dent. Let's give…
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#902: How to Successfully Expand Your Range of Services
Is there a service in the dentistry field you're interested in learning more about — perhaps enough to add it to your practice? Tiff and Britt dive deep into…
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#901: How to Have the Perfect Quarterly Meeting
Kiera is a guest on the Dental Lighthouse Podcast with Jason Tanoory to talk about the power of quarterly meetings. They discuss the benefits of a third party…
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#900: Manage Your Inventory Like a Pro
So much of practice profitability comes from tracking supplies and overhead. Kiera pulls back the curtain on how practices can keep track of supplies, avoid…
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#899: A Guide to Celebrating Your Team!
Tiff and Dana are encouraging listeners to start planning for an end-of-year celebration now to show your appreciation for the team. Their advice includes…
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#898: An Interview With the Bloody Tooth Guy
Kiera sits down with certified oral and maxillofacial surgeon Dr. Jason Auerbach, also known as @bloodytoothguy on social media. They discuss Dr. Auerbach's…
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#897: How to Cross-Train Your Positions
Kiera talks about why it's so critical to have two people in each department who know everything backward and forwards, as well as how to train team members to…
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#896: Roadmapping Your Goals
Tiff and Dana talk about setting yourself up for success, goal edition. When you begin to work toward your dreams for your practice, do you take an…
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#895: HR 101: Classify Your Employees Correctly (Or Else)
Paul Edwards, HR extraordinaire and founder of CEDR, breaks down with Kiera the classification of employees from a federal perspective. He touches on how to…
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#894: Book Club: Die with Zero, Maximize Your Life Experiences
Kiera reviews the September book club selection: Die with Zero: Getting All You Can from Your Money and Your Life by Bill Perkins. She compares the Die with…
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#893: There's Still Time to Meet Your 2024 Practice Goals
It's time to assess the goals you set for your practice this year. In this episode, Tiff and Dana discuss taking a good look at those 2024 goals, considering…
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#892: Hiring Outside of Dentistry
Kiera talks about how to effectively hire team members who don't have formal dentistry training — and how they can be some of the best employees you'll ever…
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#891: Who Builds the Ops Manual?
Tiff and Dana take a look at the mechanisms that go into building an operations manual: who participates versus who keeps everyone on track, what's the…
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#890: Hacks for Increasing Profitability
Rereleasing one of DAT's most popular episodes! Did you know that team members can be more profitable with accurate deep work time than just producing from the…
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#889: Here's Where Practices Fall Short When Hiring
Cory Pinegar of CallForce joins Tiff to talk about how to successfully hire the best people for your practice. They discuss the importance of consistent…
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#888: Insider Scoop on What Office Managers Do
Rereleasing one of DAT's most popular episodes! What do office managers even do? Why is it important to have an awesome OM? Kiera is joined by Brit and the two…
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#887: Ensure Your New Patients Are Staying
Tiff and Britt discuss ways a practice can make sure their new patients are sticking around, including the importance of gaining feedback from those folks who…
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#886: Hygiene Handoffs: Up Your Case Acceptance!
Rereleasing one of DAT's most popular episodes! Did you know there's a direct correlation between a perfect handoff and your case acceptance? Kiera explains in…
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#885: Perks of Being an Associate Dentist
Kiera joins Haley Schultz on The Dental Download podcast to talk about maximizing associate dentistry. They discuss how to go about learning about numbers…
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#884: Use Hygiene to Increase Profitability
Tiff and Britt talk about how practices can give a boost to the hygiene department's profitability, especially as 2024 gets closer to its end. Specifically…
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#883: Read the Schedule Like a Pro
Britt and Tiff talk about how to look outside your department's corner of the schedule, including the power of X's and slashes and why this method will set…
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#882: Give Your Patients a Memorable Experience
We all want our patients to be raving fans of our practice, right? Kiera gives tips on how to have your patients know they've hit an absolute gold mine in…
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#881: Priority Scheduling: Ideal Week + Ideal Schedules
Rereleasing one of DAT's most popular episodes! Dr. Dave Moghadam returns to the Dental A-Team podcast! This time, he's giving the goods on priority…
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#880: What I Wish They Taught in Dental School
Every 3rd Thursday at 4:30 p.m. Pacific Time, the Dental A-Team hosts a free webinar on what should've been taught in dental school, but probably wasn't…
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#879: Book Club: Business Is a Game of Strategies
Britt talks about the latest book club read, Your Next Five Moves: Master the Art of Business Strategy by Patrick Bet-David. This book is a great reminder that…
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#878: Treatment Planning: What's Best For the Patient?
Tiff and Dana lay out the most critical piece when it comes to communicating with patients during treatment planning: Focus on the patient's health, not money…
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#877: Billing: Dealing With Denials + Old Balances
Kiera educates listeners on how to install systems in the billing department that can better flow out to the clinical teams so denials and old balances can…
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#876: Have a Slam-Dunk September
Kiera encourages practices to send out end-of-year benefit letters now, just in time for the slow-down in September. As a bonus, she includes the lingo those…
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#875: Keep Those Hygiene Schedules Full
Tiff and Dana drill down on how practices can avoid their hygiene schedules falling apart, including the benefit of ASAP lists and their opinions on re-care…
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#874: Vibe Check! Patient Experience A-Z
Rereleasing one of DAT's most popular episodes! Want to know the secret to wowing your patients? Kiera shares it in THIS episode. Some spoilers to ask…
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#873: Create Lasting Impressions With Your Patients
Focusing on relationship-building with your patients is a surprisingly effective way to establish long-term success in the practice. Tiff and Dana discuss why…
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#872: Are Your Systems Outdated?
It's a very techie world out there, meaning there's probably a more streamlined way to perform some of the systems in your practice. In this episode, Kiera…
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#871: Increase Profitability with Your AR
Consultants Tiff and Dana talk all about accounts receivable and why knowing your numbers is so critical to practice success. Hint: Once you know where your…
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#870: Office Autopsy: A Complete Schedule Overhaul
In this office autopsy episode, Kiera shares an example of a doctor who's hungry to evolve. After approaching the Dental A-Team with the hope to be a more…
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#869: How To Outsource Your Billing
Rereleasing one of DAT's most popular episodes! Kiera is joined by Tiffany at eAssist to talk all things outsourcing. eAssist is a remote dental billing…
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#868: DAT Book Club: Clear Your Limiting Beliefs
Britt reviews the July book club selection, You Can Heal Your Life by Louise Hay, by touching on the principles that most stood out to her: clearing out your…
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#867: Identify (+ Implement) the Best CE Opportunities
As DAT visits with practices, the consultants are hearing more about CE options: doctors and team members who feel like they're consuming too much or spending…