Dental Practice Heroes Newsletter
Dr. Etchison will share tips, strategies, and give a summary of the DPH content and upcoming events for the month.
Tags: dental practice growth
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Stop Guessing: Find What's Holding Your Practice Back
Production is down, collections are slipping, and something isn't working. But where do you start?
You've got unscheduled treatment piling up, your team is busy, and things keep falling through the cracks. You're looking at your numbers, wondering what happened and what to fix first. The problem...
Oct 21, 2026
dental practice growth
dental practice kpis
dental practice management
profitability
Breaking Through the Next Stage of Practice Growth
Your practice is growing, you're making good money, and somehow everything feels harder than it used to.
Your team is busy, things keep falling through the cracks, and you're constantly answering questions, solving problems, and reminding people what needs to get done. You keep thinking, "We just...
Oct 16, 2026
dental leadership
dental practice growth
dental practice profitability
dental team development
How to Make Hiring an Associate Pay Off
Hiring an associate is supposed to make your life easier. So why does it sometimes do the opposite?
You picture more production, fewer clinical days, and more freedom. Instead, you're struggling to fill their schedule, your production takes a hit, and now you're managing another doctor's expectat...
Oct 14, 2026
associate retention
dental practice growth
dental practice profitability
hiring an associate dentist
The Difference Between Fixing and Creating
You can spend an entire year improving your practice and still end up with almost the exact same practice.
You fix scheduling problems, improve systems, handle team issues, and put out fires. Yet you're still working the same hours, carrying the same responsibilities, and dealing with the same fr...
Oct 09, 2026
ceo time
dental leadership
dental practice growth
practice ownership
Stop Waiting to Feel Ready
You may already be ready for the change you keep telling yourself you’ll make “someday.”
Maybe it’s cutting back a clinical day, hiring an associate, taking more time off, or giving your leadership team more responsibility. You keep waiting for the practice to feel a little more s...
Oct 02, 2026
ceo time
dental practice growth
dental practice profitability
dentist freedom
The Hidden Cost of a Comfortable Practice
“Things are fine” can quietly become one of the most expensive beliefs in your practice.
You’re making good money. You like your team. The schedule is full. Nothing feels broken, so it is easy to stop asking what could be better. That is where comfort can slowly turn into complacency.
A healthy p...
Sep 30, 2026
dental leadership
dental practice growth
dental practice owner
dental practice profitability
Build a Stronger Admin Structure
Hiring more people will not fix a poorly designed admin team.
When the front is constantly juggling phones, patients, insurance, and schedule problems, it is easy to think you need another person. But if everyone is expected to do everything, another hire may just give you one more overwhelmed em...
Aug 28, 2026
admin team
dental office systems
dental practice growth
practice efficiency
Choosing the Right Next Step
Just because your practice can grow does not mean it should.
It is easy to look around and feel like the next step is always more. More chairs, another associate, a bigger office, maybe even another location. But before you make the practice bigger, you need to ask yourself whether bigger actuall...
Aug 12, 2026
dental practice growth
practice ownership
scaling a dental practice
The Leadership Fix Behind Higher Collections
In a lot of offices, the office manager is really a super front desk person. They know every insurance rule, they solve every problem, and everyone goes to them for answers. They work hard, they care, but they are buried in tasks instead of leading the team or growing the practice.
The shift happ...
Dec 11, 2025
dental leadership
dental practice growth
office manager leadership
practice management
Fix the Front, Fill the Schedule
Have you ever had a patient say yes in the back, then somehow vanish at the front desk and never schedule?
Clinically everything went great. They understood the need and were on board. Then they hear the cost, say they will call you back, and you know they are gone.
Here is what experience has sh...
Dec 02, 2025
dental practice growth
practice systems
scheduling strategies
treatment coordination
Stop Falling for These Practice Owner Mindset Mistakes
Most owners think stress comes from broken systems, but it usually starts in the mind. It is like following your GPS perfectly and still ending up lost because the destination was wrong from the start. I see the same thing in practice ownership all the time. These three traps create most of the f...
Nov 28, 2025
dental practice growth
mental traps
mindset
practice ownership
How to Stop Feeling Like You’re Always Behind
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You got into ownership for freedom, not chaos. If the practice feels like a messy room and you do not know where to start, here is the first pass with a trash bag and a plan.
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Oct 21, 2025
dental coaching
dental leadership
dental practice growth
dental practice management
dental practice profitability