Group Function: Maximizing Your Digital Dentistry Investment with Dr. Armen Mirzayan and Damien Bonner
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Release Date: 10/11/2024
Very Clinical: Dr. Tarun Agarwal Has Changed His Mind About Implants
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Kevin and Zach are joined by Dr. Tarun Agarwal and Al to talk about what he's changed his mind about. It will come as no surprise that T-Bone has changed his mind about surgery and implants! Specifically guided implant surgery! Some links from the show: Join the using the password "Timmerman," Hornbrook," McWethy," "Papa Randy" or "Lipscomb." The Very Dental Podcast network is and will remain free to download. If you’d like to support the shows you love at Very Dental then show a little love to the people that support us! -- Crazy Dental has everything you need from cotton...
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Very Dental Student: From Student to Dentist with Dr. Brandon Evert
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This throwback episode features how we introduced the Very Dental Student Podcast! Mohamed talks with Al for a couple minutes and then brings in Dr. Brandon Evert to talk to him about the transition from student to dentist! Original show notes: Welcome to the inaugural episode of the Very Dental Student Podcast! Alan introduces your host, Mohamed Abo-Basha, who is a D2 at University of Oklahoma! Al's tips for dental students: If you can swing it, many dental companies will sell stuff to dental students at a pretty great discount (think loupes, headlamps, etc.) Take advantage of your dental...
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Very Dental Extra: IDSOs and the Future of Dental Practice with Chip Fichtner
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"They always talk about how the independent dentists are providing better care than the groups are, the corporate dentistry. Well, that's not necessarily true. If you really study the tools that they have that the independent dentists have not yet adopted, most of the independent dentists are far behind the invisible DSOs and DSOs from a patient care and a technology adoption." Chip Fichtner, Large Practice Sales Alan is joined once again by Chip Fichtner of Large Practice Sales to talk about Invisible DSOs. Some of our topics included: How did Chip get in to IDSOs? Large Practice Sales only...
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Group Function: Maximizing Your Digital Dentistry Investment with Dr. Armen Mirzayan and Damien Bonner
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Alan is joined with Dr. Armen Mirzayan and Damien Bonner of CAD-Ray for a second round of discussion on digital dentistry! Damien explains a typical progression of someone moving into digital dentistry. Companies shouldn't sell digital products to dentists that aren't ready for them. Armen is a very cheap salesperson. Buy your scanner from someone who knows something about scanners. CAD-Ray are terrible sales people but amazing support people. Armen on scan bodies One very cool thing about digital dentistry is that we can verify accuracy in ways that you can't in analog dentistry....
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Very Clinical: Take The Time Off Now with Dr. Melissa Zettler
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Dr. Melissa Zettler joins Zach and Kevin to talk about things she's changed her mind about in life. And she's got two really good ones. Take the time off now. Don't wait. Over-the-top staff gifts can be a mistake. Join the using the password "Timmerman," Hornbrook," McWethy," "Papa Randy" or "Lipscomb." The Very Dental Podcast network is and will remain free to download. If you’d like to support the shows you love at Very Dental then show a little love to the people that support us! -- Crazy Dental has everything you need from cotton rolls to equipment and everything in...
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AME: You Won't Even Remember It
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Al riffs on a stressful patient problem/story that occupied his brain for an entire day and how quickly it was forgotten for the next drama. It's worth remembering that the drama that's occupying your mind right now is something you probably won't even remember in a week. And that's a good thing. Join the using the password "Timmerman," Hornbrook" or "McWethy," "Papa Randy" or "Lipscomb!" The Very Dental Podcast network is and will remain free to download. If you’d like to support the shows you love at Very Dental then show a little love to the people that support us! -- Crazy Dental...
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Very Baseball!
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We interrupt our normal podcast schedule to bring you Friday's episode a couple days early! This special episode of the Very Clinical Podcast features Zach, Kevin and Al talking about playoff baseball! As it turns out, each of their respective baseball teams has made it into the playoffs, so the guys are celebrating October baseball! As it stands, Zach's Kansas City Royals won their first game against the Baltimore Orioles while Al's Detroit Tigers started a three game run in Houston with a win! Will the Tigers move on to face Kevin's Cleveland Guardians/Indians? Enjoy some baseball...
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Very Clinical: You Are the Constant in Your Practice with Dr. Melissa Zettler
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Kevin and Zach are joined once again by the incomparable Dr. Melissa Zettler! This time Melissa let's the guys in on something Melissa has changed her mind about in business. Melissa has dropped a bunch of insurances and wants you to know that you can do it if you want to. Also...people are replaceable except for you. Join the using the password "Timmerman," Hornbrook," McWethy," "Papa Randy" or "Lipscomb." The Very Dental Podcast network is and will remain free to download. If you’d like to support the shows you love at Very Dental then show a little love to the people that...
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AME: Free Stuff
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I mean...it's not REALLY free stuff. But finding new uses for things you already have/paid for is almost the same as getting free stuff. All riffs on several things he's found that feel like free stuff now that he's using them better. Some links from the show: Join the using the password "Timmerman," Hornbrook" or "McWethy," "Papa Randy" or "Lipscomb!" The Very Dental Podcast network is and will remain free to download. If you’d like to support the shows you love at Very Dental then show a little love to the people that support us! -- Crazy Dental has everything you need from...
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Very Dental Extra: Building a Big Case Practice with Dr. John Nosti
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Today's Very Dental Extra is brought to you ad free by our friends at Ivoclar! Dr. John Nosti is a practices and teaches comprehensive restorative dentistry to dentists all over the country. In his first guest appearance on the Very Dental Podcast John and Alan have a wide ranging conversation about John's origin story, restorative dentistry and specifically how important a quality curing light is! Pork Roll or Taylor Ham? The John Nosti origin story! (he started in orofacial pain!) Teaching with the Hornbrook Group--->Clinical Mastery Series How did he build a practice in "big case...
info_outlineAlan is joined with Dr. Armen Mirzayan and Damien Bonner of CAD-Ray for a second round of discussion on digital dentistry!
- Damien explains a typical progression of someone moving into digital dentistry.
- Companies shouldn't sell digital products to dentists that aren't ready for them.
- Armen is a very cheap salesperson.
- Buy your scanner from someone who knows something about scanners.
- CAD-Ray are terrible sales people but amazing support people.
- Armen on scan bodies
- One very cool thing about digital dentistry is that we can verify accuracy in ways that you can't in analog dentistry.
- Digital margins are tiny enough that we cannot manufacture to the tolerances that we actually see on the digital impression.
- The slop is in manufacturing more than digital scanning
- Photogrammetry and the accuracy of digital scanners over an edentulous scan.
- How to make an accurate scan for full arch implants
- Intraoral photgrammetry with the Shining 3D Aoralscan Elite
- This is going to start making smaller implant cases faster and cheaper!
- Why start a teaching center in Vegas?
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The Very Dental Podcast network is and will remain free to download. If you’d like to support the shows you love at Very Dental then show a little love to the people that support us!
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