Dental Practice Heroes

Dr. Paul Etchison

Where dentists learn how to cut clinical days while increasing profits - without sacrificing patient care, cutting corners, or cranking volume.   We teach you how to grow a scalable practice through communication, leadership, and effective management. Hosted by Dr. Paul Etchison, author of two books on dental practice management, dental coach, and owner of a $6M collections group practice in the south suburbs of Chicago, we provide actionable advice for practice owners who want to intentionally create more time to enjoy their families, wealth, and deep personal fulfillment.  If you want to build a scalable practice framework that no longer stresses, drains, or relies on you for every little thing, we will teach you how and share stories of other dentists who have done it!

  1. Adding Evening Hours Without Killing Your Culture

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    Adding Evening Hours Without Killing Your Culture

    Your practice feels maxed out, but you’re not ready to build more operatories or move locations. So what’s the lever most owners ignore? Hours. We talk through why adding evenings or Saturdays sparks instant fear in dental teams, and how to lead that change without breaking trust, creating burnout, or wrecking your culture. We share the shift design that makes expanded hours feel fair: stop treating the day schedule as “normal,” rotate intentionally, and start small so the team can experience the upsides. We also dig into how to present the change so it lands as better patient access and more flexibility, not “work later and work more.” If you’ve ever worried that one resistant team member could derail the whole plan, we address that head-on with a practical leadership stance you can actually use. Then we zoom out to the business side of dental practice growth. If you want to hire an associate in a smaller office, the math matters: hygiene capacity, production hours, and new patient flow. We unpack why simply sliding over a chair can make you less profitable, and why split shifts and expanded hours often create the room you need without adding square footage. We even share real-world results from high-performing small-op offices that prove the model can work. If you found this helpful, subscribe for more practice owner strategies, share it with a dentist friend who’s stuck at capacity, and leave a review so more owners can find the show. What hours change would move the needle most for your practice right now? Don't be a silly goose....Download the Dental Practice Heroes App today and access all the free resources available to you. (Awesome Android ppl Click Here) Take Control of Your Practice and Your Life We help dentists take more time off while making more money through systematization, team empowerment, and creating leadership teams. Ready to build a practice that works for you? Visit www.DentalPracticeHeroes.com to learn more.

    19 min
  2. $1M Per Chair… and Barely Any Marketing with Lior Tamir

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    $1M Per Chair… and Barely Any Marketing with Lior Tamir

    Don't let all your marketing dollars go to waste… Because if you're chasing patients instead of focusing on their experience inside your practice, they may be. Dr. Lior Tamir has built a practice doing close to $1M per chair while spending under $3K/month on marketing. In this episode, he shares exactly how he did it — from the patient experience details most owners ignore to the follow-up gap costing most practices serious revenue. Topics discussed: Why marketing isn’t enough to grow a practiceThe unconventional moves that differentiated and grew his practiceHow small details compound into long-term retentionPatient touchpoints that drive organic growthWhy you should invest in technology (and what to buy first)How to unlock hidden revenue in your practiceLearn more about The Dental App: https://www.thedentalapp.com/ This episode was produced by Podcast Boutique https://www.podcastboutique.com Are you Ready for a More Proactive CPA?  Email info@itxre.com or check out https://www.itxre.com for more information.  Don't be a silly goose....Download the Dental Practice Heroes App today and access all the free resources available to you. (Awesome Android ppl Click Here) Take Control of Your Practice and Your Life We help dentists take more time off while making more money through systematization, team empowerment, and creating leadership teams. Ready to build a practice that works for you? Visit www.DentalPracticeHeroes.com to learn more.

    43 min
  3. Resist Your Growing Admin Payroll, Fix This First

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    Resist Your Growing Admin Payroll, Fix This First

    We break down why a “slammed” front desk is often a symptom of broken systems, not true patient volume. We show how tighter first conversations, better phone control, and clearer financial expectations eliminate repeat work and reduce burnout. • redundant admin work as the hidden killer of efficiency • cancellations as an upstream conversation problem that creates multiple downstream tasks • phone training as the difference between long meandering calls and confident appointment closes • clear financial presentations to prevent repeated questions and follow-up work • a leadership mindset shift from hiring to system precision • a baseline staffing metric of collections per full-time front desk team member • collecting the full patient portion at scheduling to reduce no-shows and friction • homework question for the team to identify repeat tasks and remove them at the source So if that's something that interests you, please reach out to us, set up a strategy call. Let's talk about it. And if you like what you hear, please give a five star review on Apple for the podcast. Don't be a silly goose....Download the Dental Practice Heroes App today and access all the free resources available to you. (Awesome Android ppl Click Here) Take Control of Your Practice and Your Life We help dentists take more time off while making more money through systematization, team empowerment, and creating leadership teams. Ready to build a practice that works for you? Visit www.DentalPracticeHeroes.com to learn more.

    12 min
  4. Full Schedule, Low Profit: The Real Problem With Your Dental Schedule

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    Full Schedule, Low Profit: The Real Problem With Your Dental Schedule

    Exhausted, underproducing... but busy. Sound familiar? Instead of grinding away, you could be building a $1.5 million practice with just two procedures a day. In this episode, the DPH coaches break down block scheduling, guardrails that keep low-dollar procedures from stacking up, treatment planning benchmarks, and how to coach your team into building a profitable schedule — not just a full one. Topics discussed: Why a packed schedule doesn't always equal a profitable oneThe real reason your days feel chaoticBlock scheduling: how to protect your timeWhere low-value procedures belong in your scheduleWhat a $1.5M production schedule looks like day-to-dayHow to diagnose what’s wrong with your scheduleFour reasons you have a bad scheduleHow to audit and coach your team without dramaThe leadership mindset shift that ties it all togetherThis episode was produced by Podcast Boutique https://www.podcastboutique.com Are you Ready for a More Proactive CPA?  Email info@itxre.com or check out https://www.itxre.com for more information.  Don't be a silly goose....Download the Dental Practice Heroes App today and access all the free resources available to you. (Awesome Android ppl Click Here) Take Control of Your Practice and Your Life We help dentists take more time off while making more money through systematization, team empowerment, and creating leadership teams. Ready to build a practice that works for you? Visit www.DentalPracticeHeroes.com to learn more.

    28 min
  5. You Don’t Need More Space, You Have an Efficiency Problem (Costing You Big Time)

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    You Don’t Need More Space, You Have an Efficiency Problem (Costing You Big Time)

    We challenge the reflex to hire an associate or build more operatories when the real issue is low efficiency and weak utilization. We break down the numbers that reveal the true bottleneck and the practical steps that raise production and profit without adding fixed costs. • why most “space problems” are really efficiency problems  • the core rule: do not build a bigger box for a broken system  • real-world production per operatory examples and why benchmarks can be too low  • expanding hours as the fastest way to increase utilization  • the associate trap and how extra providers can reduce profitability  • the minimal acceptable production floor of $650 per hour and why owners should aim higher  • identifying constraints: new patient flow, hygiene pipeline, procedure time, scheduling  • how block scheduling can drive rapid production gains  • using evening hours to improve access without increasing overhead  • three questions to answer before expanding: DPH, hygiene coverage, fully utilized hours  Go to dentalpracticeheroes.com/slash strategy. Are you Ready for a More Proactive CPA?  Email info@itxre.com or check out https://www.itxre.com for more information.  Don't be a silly goose....Download the Dental Practice Heroes App today and access all the free resources available to you. (Awesome Android ppl Click Here) Take Control of Your Practice and Your Life We help dentists take more time off while making more money through systematization, team empowerment, and creating leadership teams. Ready to build a practice that works for you? Visit www.DentalPracticeHeroes.com to learn more.

    18 min
  6. Why Patients Say No (Even When You’re Right)

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    Why Patients Say No (Even When You’re Right)

    The difference between associates producing $8K a day versus $1.4K a day? It has nothing to do with clinical skill. In this episode, the DPH coaches explain why building rapport with patients is the foundation of case acceptance. You'll learn how to coach your associates without pushing them away, a 2-minute exercise that makes patient conversations feel more natural, and how to work as a team to build trust before the doctor even walks in. Topics discussed: When associates don’t want to build rapportA simple exercise to build patient connectionsThe cost of poor treatment planningHow to explain rapport to associates in a way that gets buy-inHow to build trust before the doctor walks inConversation starters that actually feel naturalThe right way to coach associates (& why it’s a non-negotiable)This episode was produced by Podcast Boutique https://www.podcastboutique.com Are you Ready for a More Proactive CPA?  Email info@itxre.com or check out https://www.itxre.com for more information.  Don't be a silly goose....Download the Dental Practice Heroes App today and access all the free resources available to you. (Awesome Android ppl Click Here) Take Control of Your Practice and Your Life We help dentists take more time off while making more money through systematization, team empowerment, and creating leadership teams. Ready to build a practice that works for you? Visit www.DentalPracticeHeroes.com to learn more.

    30 min
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Where dentists learn how to cut clinical days while increasing profits - without sacrificing patient care, cutting corners, or cranking volume.   We teach you how to grow a scalable practice through communication, leadership, and effective management. Hosted by Dr. Paul Etchison, author of two books on dental practice management, dental coach, and owner of a $6M collections group practice in the south suburbs of Chicago, we provide actionable advice for practice owners who want to intentionally create more time to enjoy their families, wealth, and deep personal fulfillment.  If you want to build a scalable practice framework that no longer stresses, drains, or relies on you for every little thing, we will teach you how and share stories of other dentists who have done it!

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