DPH's Dental Practice Growth & Leadership Blog
Expert insights on dental practice management, coaching, and leadership. Learn how to grow a dental practice, reduce cancellations, improve case acceptance, train your team, and boost profitability. The Dental Practice Heroes Blog helps dentists scale with proven systems, reduce burnout, and build self-managing practices for more income and freedom.
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How to Grow a Fee-for-Service Dental Practice Out of Network (With Associates): Lessons from Dr. Andrew Kokabi
If you’ve ever wondered whether you can grow your dental practice without playing the insurance game, you’re not alone. Many owners assume that building a dental practice with real scale requires PPO participation, high-volume scheduling, or constantly chasing lower reimbursements.
But on the Den...
Jan 06, 2026
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How to Protect Your Dental Practice When a Case Goes Wrong
No matter how skilled or experienced you are, complications happen in dentistry. Even the best clinicians will eventually face a case that does not go as planned. When that happens, the difference between a manageable complication and a board complaint or dental malpractice case often comes down ...
Jan 01, 2026
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How to Build Patient Trust and Increase Case Acceptance in Your Dental Practice
Trust is one of the most important elements of dental patient management, yet it is one of the hardest things to measure. You cannot track trust on a report, but you can absolutely feel its impact on case acceptance, patient retention, and long term dental practice growth.
If patients are not acc...
Dec 25, 2025
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Is Clinical Dentistry or Running a Dental Practice More Stressful?
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As dentists, we often ask ourselves a tough question. Are we more comfortable doing clinical dentistry or dealing with the demands of running a dental practice? Many owners a...
Dec 23, 2025
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Dental Practice Leadership That Builds Loyalty and Reduces Turnover
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If you have ever felt like your dental practice is capable of more, you are not alone. Many owners pour energy into building a dental practice, chasing bigger numbers, and trying to increase dental practice revenue, only to discover that growth without the right leadership can...
Dec 11, 2025
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Overcoming Dentist Burnout: How to Regain Joy and Balance in Dentistry
Learn how to prevent and recover from dentist burnout. Discover how mindset shifts, better scheduling, and coaching can help dental practice owners reduce stress and love dentistry again.
Why Dentist Burnout Is on the Rise
More dentists than ever are talking about burnout in dentistry. From long...
Nov 10, 2025
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How Dentists Can Overcome Burnout and Reclaim Their Life
Feeling Trapped by "Success"? You’re Not Alone
Many dental practice owners quietly struggle with burnout in dentistry. You work hard, grow your practice, and on the outside everything looks successful. But inside, you may feel exhausted, anxious, or trapped by the constant pressure of ownership.
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Nov 07, 2025
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How to Set Your Associate Dentists Up for Success and Long-Term Retention
1. Start With Structured Associate Dentist Onboarding
A great associate doesn’t become great by accident. The foundation of associate dentist success is a clear onboarding plan that sets expectations from day one.
Your associate dentist onboarding checklist should include:
Introduction to pract...
Nov 04, 2025
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How to Handle Upset Dental Patients: Set Expectations, Show Empathy, and Protect Your Reputation
“It didn’t hurt until you touched it, Doc.”
Every dentist knows that sinking feeling. Post-op sensitivity, bite issues, or unexpected pain can turn an otherwise routine case into a stressful one. Yet these moments are inevitable. What matters most is how you respond.
This article, based on a Dent...
Oct 31, 2025
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