What's the right mindset for a dentist who wants to escape an average practice? Stop expecting fairness. Start accumulating advantages. The realities of practice are not fair. Insurance reimbursement, education debt, supply costs, demographic shifts, marketing complexity, all of it pressures the average dentist toward mediocrity. The only useful response is to acquire advantages over time that reduce those pressures' impact on you personally. Read. Train. Test. Build internal systems competitors lack. Develop a category of one. Build a big-case annuity. Hire well and train regularly. None of this is glamorous. All of it compounds. The dentists who win do so [...]

What's the right mindset for a dentist who wants to escape an average practice? Stop expecting fairness. Start accumulating advantages. The realities of practice are not fair. Insurance reimbursement, education debt, supply costs, demographic shifts, marketing complexity, all of it pressures the average dentist toward mediocrity. The only useful response is to acquire advantages over time that reduce those pressures' impact on you personally. Read. Train. Test. Build internal systems competitors lack. Develop a category of one. Build a big-case annuity. Hire well and train regularly. None of this is glamorous. All of it compounds. The dentists who win do so [...]

What's the right mindset for a dentist who wants to escape an average practice? Stop expecting fairness. Start accumulating advantages. The realities of practice are not fair. Insurance reimbursement, education debt, supply costs, demographic shifts, marketing complexity, all of it pressures the average dentist toward mediocrity. The only useful response is to acquire advantages over time that reduce those pressures' impact on you personally. Read. Train. Test. Build internal systems competitors lack. Develop a category of one. Build a big-case annuity. Hire well and train regularly. None of this is glamorous. All of it compounds. The dentists who win do so [...]