31 - The One Where Zach Talks About Bonding Agents
D.O.P.E. Lunch
Welcome to D.O.P.E. Lunch, the lunchtime dental podcast for the short commute dentist, with Shawn and Zach. Ever forget to pack a lunch and just grab a handful of cookies? Here's another microCE episode offering through the podcast! Click the link at the top of the show notes to claim your microCE credit. We're heading in a restorative direction today discussing bonding agents. What generation do you use? What are the indications? What are the compatible, and more importantly incompatible, resin materials you can use? This week's Mad Dentist Minute: here's a tip for entertaining your...
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30 - The One Where Shawn Talks About 3D Printers
D.O.P.E. Lunch
Welcome to D.O.P.E. Lunch, the lunchtime dental podcast for the short commute dentist, with Shawn and Zach. Going to an all you can eat buffet? Would it be like Shawn's bargain basement Chinese food, or Zach's high end strip club smorgasbord? Here's another microCE episode offering through the podcast! Click the link at the top of the show notes to claim your microCE credit. The next logical step after talking about scanners is 3D printers. With costs coming way down, there really aren't any good reasons left why you SHOULDN'T have a 3D printer in your office. This week's Mad Dentist Minute:...
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29 - Potbelly Turducken Sub
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Welcome to D.O.P.E. Lunch, the lunchtime dental podcast for the short commute dentist, with Shawn and Zach. Thanksgiving just keeps going with a fabulous Potbelly Turducken sandwich. Welcome to the first microCE course offering through the podcast! Click the link at the top of the show notes to claim your microCE credit. We're opening up the education floodgates with a common question lots of dentists have: where should I start with digital dentistry, specifically, scanners. This week's Mad Dentist Minute: old school note taking, on-the-fly, with an audio recorder in the car. Amazon also has...
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28 - Soggy Nachos
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Welcome to D.O.P.E. Lunch, the lunchtime dental podcast for the short commute dentist, with Shawn and Zach. It looks like Zach's fabulous lunch streak has finally come to an end. He's slumming it today with one of the most overrated all-American lunches: soggy nachos. We're jumping into the fight between research results and manufacturer sales pitches with the longevity of a relatively newer material Celtra Duo from Dentsply Sirona. This week's Mad Dentist Minute: Systematize your front office, assisting manuals, and marketing strategy with . Definitely not the nachos of the dental...
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27 - Thanksgiving Turducken
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Welcome to D.O.P.E. Lunch, the lunchtime dental podcast for the short commute dentist, with Shawn and Zach. It's close to Thanksgiving and turkey's on our minds... and so is roast duck... and chicken. We discuss the exciting world of partial dentures this week. Actually, there's a lot more to removable than just full dentures. The intricacy of partial denture frameworks, design, and materials makes for an interesting labor of hate. This week's Mad Dentist Minute: Note taking in the cloud on all your devices with . Send us your questions or comments to or and hit us up on Facebook....
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26 - Goat's Milk Chillito
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Welcome to D.O.P.E. Lunch, the lunchtime dental podcast for the short commute dentist, with Shawn and Zach. Zach gets some cravings for a homemade chillito with fresh ground beef and goat's milk cheese. Shawn? Not so fresh. We 10X'd our endo irrigation last time, so we're progressing to 10X obturation this week. Check out several different obturation methods from single cone cold condensation, carrier systems, and warm vertical compaction before you implement a full protocol in your office. We discuss obturation methods and sealer products to try, including "regular" Tubliseal and the...
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25 - On-Site Guacamole
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Welcome to D.O.P.E. Lunch, the lunchtime dental podcast for the short commute dentist, with Shawn and Zach. When you order in lunch, is it made right there in the office? Nothing beats nachos without some in-office, made-to-order on-site guacamole. This is another of our endo episodes and we're 10X'ing our irrigation protocol. for some value EDTA irrigation This week's Mad Dentist Minute: Mojo impression syringe at and from Dentazon to save on your PVS use. Check out Shawn's treatment plan presentation folder setup at the D.O.P.E. Lunch Facebook...
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24 - Caramel Apple Gift Basket
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Welcome to D.O.P.E. Lunch, the lunchtime dental podcast for the short commute dentist, with Shawn and Zach. Welcome back to the D.O.P.E. Lunch reboot! We took a short, well, lunch break, and thank you for waiting for us! Even Zach's specialist thank you baskets are better! In this episode we're discussing bite splints. Do you outsource all your splints, or do you get hands-on and make them in your office? By lowering your overhead (including lab bills and assistant salaries) you can have flexible pricing on your splints and treat more patients (who you KNOW would benefit from splint therapy)....
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23 - Intermittent Fasting
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Welcome to D.O.P.E. Lunch, the lunchtime dental podcast for the short commute dentist, with Shawn and Zach. Even when Zach DOESN'T eat, it's gotta be in an expensive way. We're discussing cosmetics and waxups and case presentations on this week's episode. How do you do a full arch temporization? Do you do staged rehabs and offer patients an initial composite workup? This week's Mad Dentist Minute: Another recommendation from Zach for composite polishers. Tired of swapping out discs and having to stock multiple mandrels between patients? Start using the Shofu Super-Snap polishing...
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22 - Leftover Swordfish
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Welcome to D.O.P.E. Lunch, the lunchtime dental podcast for the short commute dentist, with Shawn and Zach. Even Zach's leftovers are exotic. Reheated fish sticks? Well, kinda. Sometimes the best return is to go through the backdoor. At least, that's what Zach recommends. Our in-house money man Zach breaks down how to get a better return and reduce your taxes. This week's Mad Dentist Minute: This is a dope Chrome or Firefox plugin that will grammar and spellcheck ANYTHING! Of course, it's FREE! Send us your questions or comments to or and hit us up on Facebook. Until...
info_outlineWelcome to D.O.P.E. Lunch, the lunchtime dental podcast for the short commute dentist, with Shawn and Zach.
It's an exciting time for Shawn as he's welcoming another child to his family
We're going meta for today's lunch. It's the podcast about podcasts today.
Did you know there are over 50 dental specific podcasts? There's only ONE comprehensive dental podcast listing website. Practice In A Pod
Practice In A Pod dental podcast listings and archives
The default preinstalled podcast apps leave much to be desired. On Android devices check out Pocketcast and iPhone users can get the free Overcast podcast app.
Alan Mead and Jason Lipscomb of The Dental Hacks Podcast
Russell Kirk and The Business of Dentistry
Reese Harper with Dentist Money
Millennial Dentist
Life and Dentistry
Lance Timmerman and Joshua Austin in Working Interferences
Orin Scrivello and King Schultz The Snarky Dentists
This week's Mad Dentist Minutes:
LAN Messenger - message team members in the office.
Pidgin.im - Zach ups the MDM game with pidgin, a FREE alternative to Shawn's pay-to-play application.
Greenshot for capturing screenshots.
1Password password vault. Stop saving your passwords in your browser. It's convenient, but not secure!
Supply Savings
Safco - The Amazon of dental supplies
Net32 - For NOTHING with an expiration!
Dentalree - Hold my bur
Edge Endo - compare to Tulsa and WaveOne files, but avoid the K-files like the plague!
And finally, the king of dental savings websites... eBay! Check it for everything from handpieces, to overstocked eMax blocks, to endo sponge.
Until next week... STAY DOPE!
DOPE Lunch is the lunchtime dental podcast for the short commute dentist. Join Shawn and Zach each week, serving up piping hot podcast episodes every Tuesday morning.
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