Very Dental Shorts: Easy Peasy Digital Crown Workflow
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Release Date: 08/18/2021
Very Clinical: Dr. Tarun Agarwal Thinks You Should Be The Bank
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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 in businss. Tarun offers the idea that you should self finance your patient...you should be the bank. This goes against A LOT of advice you'll hear in other places. It's a great conversation from an interesting guy! 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...
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AME: If You Can't Quit, Curate
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Social media is a blessing and a curse. Yes, it's self administered poison and yes, it can be bad for your mental health. So...you should quit. Or never start. But...if you choose to use it, you should curate what you see. Al gives some tips on this. Al's Doomscrolling Playlist 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...
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Very Dental: Practice Management in the Cloud with John Hammond of Neem
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Imagine being a patient who shows up for their appointment only to be turned away because the office's server was down. Now imagine if you're a software guy and this happens to you! That's the story with John Hammond, co-founder of Neem, a cloud based practice management software! Alan and John have a wide ranging discussion about the advantages of cloud based practice management! It's not the technology as much as the switching The Neem elevator pitch The pros and cons of cloud computing in dentistry Why has medicine jumped into cloud so easily? The key to Neem...painless migration Two...
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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...
info_outlineCan you knock out a crown prep from start to finish in 40 minutes? Over the last couple of years I've put together a workflow that's leisurely yet thorough and gets great results for the classic single unit crown.
I'd be curious to hear if you have tweaks that can make this even better!
Some links from the show:
- Template/Temp Tray from Clinician's Choice
- Medit i500 intraoral scanner
- Premier Knit pack cord
- Premier Traxodent
- Ultradent Astringident X
- Vividprime desensitizer
- Cosmedent MirrorImage
- Itena Dentotemp
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