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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....
info_outline Very Clinical: Take The Time Off Now with Dr. Melissa ZettlerThe Very Dental Podcast Network
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...
info_outline AME: You Won't Even Remember ItThe Very Dental Podcast Network
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...
info_outline Very Baseball!The Very Dental Podcast Network
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_outline Very Clinical: You Are the Constant in Your Practice with Dr. Melissa ZettlerThe Very Dental Podcast Network
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...
info_outline AME: Free StuffThe Very Dental Podcast Network
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...
info_outline Very Dental Extra: Building a Big Case Practice with Dr. John NostiThe Very Dental Podcast Network
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_outline Group Function: Pushing the Limits of Digital Dentistry with Dr. Armen Mirzayan and Damien BonnerThe Very Dental Podcast Network
Dr. Armen Mirzayan and Damien Bonner from CAD-Ray join Alan for a deep dive into digital dentistry. Armen presented at the Francis B. Vedder Society last weekend and he crushed it. We have a discussion covering lots of topics! The history of the Vedder Society How Armen and Damien got in to digital dentistry CAD-Ray is a service company that sells digital stuff (scanners, CBCTs, printers, mills, etc.) How dental meetings have changed Armen and Damien are scanner agnostic...you can get there with any scanner The fundamentals of scanning are the same, no matter tha scanner Scan paths and how to...
info_outline Very Clinical: Slow Your Roll with Dr. Melissa ZettlerThe Very Dental Podcast Network
Zach and Kevin welcome back Dr. Melissa Zettler to talk about what she's changed her mind about. Melissa has taken a TON of CE in order to learn how to do AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE as quickly as possible. She thinks that there was a lot of pressure to be a super dentist early in her career. She did this and it was disruptive to her family life and can be a financial strain. The big message...slow your roll. 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...
info_outline AME: Getting the Most Out of Continuing EducationThe Very Dental Podcast Network
After some excellent in person continuing education, Al riffs on how to get the most out of CE. The key is to remember that the real world is a little different than the brainspace you find yourself in an engrossing CE experience! 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 cotton rolls...
info_outlineAlan is joined by friends and colleagues Dr. Dawn Kulongowski, Dr. Melissa Zettler and Dr. Frank Clayton to talk about COVID. Specifically how we’re feeling 18 months into the COVID pandemic. What’s different? What’s changed for the worse? Did anything good come from it?
Stuff that’s changed:
- Costs of everything have gone up
- Hiring/finding employees is REALLY difficult
- Delivery everything
- New business models requiring less people/more efficiency (Dawn’s vet story)
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- No dining rooms for fast food
- Tolerance of crazy patients
- Single use/waste
- Everyone using straws
- Wiping the pen
- Asking about vaccination/health information
- Health screening
- Staffing changes
- Hygiene recall is messed up!
What we’d keep:
Al: Exercise
Dawn: Less travel “I’ve put a new dollar amount on my time…”
Melissa: More time with family “We were the house that was willing to have everyone over…”
Frank: Pay attention to your time/free time. Also have patients prepay.
Some Links from the Show:
Land of the Giants podcast (season 4 focuses on the delivery economy)
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